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After arrest, the mayor may be detained under the BI’s custody pending the criminal complaint against her. The complaint against Guo for qualified trafficking was just filed, and filing a complaint is among the first steps in criminal procedure. Prosecutors would need to find enough reason to indict the mayor and elevate the case to the court. Only then would the issuance of a warrant of arrest be possible.
The mayor’s nationality was also under deep scrutiny. Guo’s citizenship was first questioned during Senate hearings, where opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros raised the question of whether Guo was an “asset” planted by China to infiltrate local politics. The mayor also claimed in one of the public hearings that she couldn’t remember basic details about her life.that the fingerprints of Guo and Guo Hua Ping, the Chinese woman suspected to be her true identity, had matched.