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Indonesia arrests a fugitive former Filipino town mayor wanted for illegal online gaming scams
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In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Senate Social Media Unit, then Bamban Mayor, Alice Guo, speaks during the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality inquiry on the alleged human trafficking and cyber fraud operation in Angeles, Pampanga province held at the Philippine Senate in Pasay City, Philippines on May 22, 2024. Guo, a dismissed town mayor who fled from the Philippines after being accused of helping establish an illegal online gaming and scam center that catered mostly to clients in China, has been arrested near Indonesia's capital, officials said Wednesday Sept. 4, 2024. - photo by Joseph Vidal/Philippine Senate Social Media Unit via AP
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A dismissed town mayor who fled the Philippines after being accused of helping establish an illegal online gaming and scam center catering mostly to clients in China has been arrested near Indonesia’s capital, officials said Wednesday. Indonesian authorities arrested Alice Guo at a house in Jakarta’s satellite city of Tangerang just before midnight on Tuesday, according to Khrisna Murti, chief of the international division of the National Police. Guo was in custody and awaiting deportation to the Philippines, Murti said, adding that her arrest was the result of "cooperation between Indonesian and Filipino’s police.” Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. thanked the Indonesian authorities.