Philippine Court’s Life Sentence for Former Mayor Exposes Deep Threats of Chinese-Backed Human Trafficking and Scams
A Philippine court’s conviction of a former mayor tied to Chinese-run human trafficking and online scams highlights the ongoing threat to national sovereignty and security posed by foreign criminal enterprises operating with impunity.
In a decisive move against transnational crime undermining Philippine—and by extension, American—interests in the region, a Manila court sentenced former Bamban mayor Alice Guo to life imprisonment for her leading role in a vast human trafficking and online scam operation. This case reveals how foreign actors exploit weak governance and corrupt loopholes to establish illegal enterprises that threaten sovereignty, fuel cybercrime, and entangle victims in modern slavery. When Corruption Breeds Crime: The Cost to National Sovereignty Alice Guo, alleged by Filipino officials to be Chinese national Guo Huaping who fraudulently claimed Filipino citizenship, oversaw sprawling illegal gaming compounds where hundreds...
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