Chinese crime gangs penetrate PH through Alice Guo, POGOs

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A Rappler investigation finds Alice Guo’s business partners are linked to an elaborate network of transnational scam and fraud operations.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/investigative/chinese-crime-gangs-penetrate-philippines-alice-guo-pogos/

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00:00A Rappler investigation finds Alice Guo's business partners are linked to an elaborate

00:05network of transnational scam and fraud operations.

00:09Chinese nationals Wang Zhiyang, Zhang Ruijin, and Lin Baoying are Guo's co-incorporators

00:14in Balfou Land, which housed two POGOs in Bambantarla when Guo was the mayor.

00:20Wang Zhiyang is wanted in the Philippines for human trafficking and in China for cross-border

00:24gambling.

00:26Attempted to Guo through Wang Zhiyang is Dingkai Wang, who's tied through a layer of companies

00:30to scam operations in Cambodia and cryptocurrency fraud in Hong Kong.

00:34Meanwhile, the couple Zhang Ruijin and Lin Baoying have been convicted of money laundering

00:39in Singapore and deported to Cambodia.

00:42These people's network has footprints as far as the Mediterranean, the UK, and the Caribbean

00:46and have altogether trafficked, scammed, and defrauded thousands of people.

00:51These crime suspects gained a foothold in the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte's China-friendly

00:55administration.

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