SPOTLIGHT: Sheila Guo, Cassandra Ong back in PH

Photos by Grig C. Montegrande

Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo’s sister Sheila Guo and gaming company representative Katherine Cassandra Ong were taken into custody by Indonesian authorities and promptly deported to the Philippines.

Inquirer photographer Grig C. Montegrande captured the moment when Sheila Guo and Ong arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 1 around 5 p.m. via Philippine Airlines Flight PR 540 from Jakarta on Thursday, Aug. 22.

Wearing face masks and keeping their heads bowed low, they were separately escorted by aviation security officers and agents of the National Bureau of Investigation as they were whisked into a van that then brought them to the Bureau of Immigration’s (BI) central office in Manila.

Sheila Guo was the one wearing an orange shirt, (but she also donned a black jacket). At one point, she had to use a wheelchair. Ong, the representative of the raided illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) hub Lucky South 99 in Porac, Pampanga, was barely visible to photographers and reporters due to the tight security shield employed by authorities. The two were considered illegal aliens by Indonesian immigration because they were wanted in the Philippines. Read more: Overseas hunt for Guo nets sis, Porac Pogo rep