Alice Leal Guo, former mayor of Bamban, was convicted of human trafficking related to an illegal online gaming scam disguised as Philippine Online Gaming Operations (Pogo).Guo, identified as Guo Huaping, allegedly faked Filipino citizenship and ran a scam compound where over 700 foreign nationals were forced into scams including "pig butchering" fraud schemes.She was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside seven co-accused, ordered to pay fines and compensation, while Philippine government crackdown on such scams continues amid rising regional losses.