For violating the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, as amended by the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012 and the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed an appropriate human trafficking case against dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, and others.
The DOJ filed the legal action on Tuesday afternoon at the Pasig Regional Trial Court (RTC). Likewise charged were Zhang Ruijin, Huang Zhiyang, and Lin Baoying. As reported by Nicky Ty, undersecretary of justice, everyone who sets up a company that deals in human trafficking might encounter legal penalties.
In June, the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission filed a complaint, which was brought in for resolution on August 6.
Later, Guo admitted that she wrote the final section of her counter-affidavit about the case before she departed from the Philippines in July. Meanwhile, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla’s plea to move POGO-related cases from Capas, Tarlac, to Pasig City was acknowledged by the Supreme Court (SC).
In the possibility involving POGOs and other associated issues of identical concern, the SC ordered judges in Capas, Tarlac, and other stations in Luzon to order the distribution of records to the Office of the Clerk of Courts (OCC), RTC in Pasig, or the OCC Metropolitan Trial Court in Pasig.