MANILA, Philippines — Suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo snubbed anew on Monday the preliminary investigation being conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the trafficking charge filed against her and 13 others, the second one this month.
Fortunately for her, state prosecutors submitted a supplemental affidavit to include an additional respondent and four complainants in the case, extending her deadline for filing a counteraffidavit to Aug. 6—“a new opportunity to explain her side to the proper forum,” according to Justice Undersecretary Nicholas Ty.
“Most of [the respondents] appeared but Mayor Guo, Dennis Cunanan and then the foreign respondents, they were not there but were represented by a lawyer,” Ty, who heads the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking, told reporters in an interview.
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