The lawyer of an alleged Chinese spy mayor said her brother wants to surrender to authorities in the Philippines. supposed brother claimed his client wants to surrender to Philippine authorities.

Attorney Stephen David, legal counsel for dismissed mayor Alice Guo who is accused of having ties with Chinese organised crime syndicates, said her supposed brother Wesley Guo wants to turn himself in to police.

The lawyer said in an ambush interview with local reporters in Manila on September 5: 'He wants to surrender, but the details, I cannot disclose. Of course, there comes a point when a person becomes discouraged because all your companions have been arrested. So human beings that we are, there is a point when we become weak and we want to give up.

'He no longer sees the essence of hiding. First of all, I asked him why are you hiding? What did you do wrong?'

Citing lawyer-client confidentiality, David declined to disclose further details.

He claimed not to know Wesley's whereabouts, saying: 'Even if you ask him, he wouldn't answer.'

He said their next move was to 'answer all the allegations'.

Wesley Guo is said to be the brother of small-town mayor Alice Guo in Bamban, Tarlac province. Authorities citing biometric data said he is actually Chinese national Guo Xiang Dian, who reportedly arrived in the Philippines in 1999.

He is the boyfriend of Cassandra Ong, a stakeholder in Whirlwind Corporation which leased land to a Chinese online gambling hub with multiple violations.

Cassandra, and alleged Guo siblings Alice, Wesley, and Shiela fled the Philippines for Indonesia while being investigated by the Philippine Senate.

Alice was nabbed by Indonesian cops in Tangerang City along the western border of Jakarta in the early hours of September 4.

Furious senators now intend to interrogate her about other 'big fish' involved in the scheme.

Senator Risa Hontiveros, who is among the authorities leading the investigation into Guo, said: 'It is time for her to answer the unanswered questions. It is time for her to face her lies.'

Guo, also known as the Chinese national Guo Hua Ping, is the subject of multiple money laundering charges filed by Philippine law enforcement agencies.

Her controversial case stemmed from a raid that uncovered a sprawling Chinese online casino built on land she partly owned in Bamban town which she governed.

She was being grilled by Philippine senators for allegedly protecting criminal syndicates in the casinos locally known as Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO).

POGOs cater to Chinese gambling clients in the Chinese mainland, but are notorious for being fronts for criminal activity, including fraud and human trafficking. They mushroomed in the Philippines after former President Rodrigo Duterte cultivated close ties with China during his term.

Guo was last seen in public on May 22. She was dismissed by an anti-graft body and soon went into hiding, refusing to appear before the Senate because 'she was traumatised'.

The mayor sparked fury among locals as she later revealed to have slipped past border checks, travelling through Malaysia, Singapore, and finally Indonesia, where she was caught.

Indonesian police were on high alert following the arrest of Guo's foster sister Shiela and their family friend Cassandra Ong, who both accompanied her while fleeing, in Batam on August 20.

Guo, a newcomer in politics, had insisted on her Filipino heritage in interviews with local media. However, fingerprint matches allegedly found that she was Chinese citizen Guo Hua Ping, sparking outrage and calls for her ouster.

The controversy comes amid the Philippines' territorial conflicts with China over parts of the South China Sea.

Expansionist China currently lays claim over almost the entire South China Sea, one of the world's busiest sea lanes. But a United Nations-backed tribunal in 2016 deemed its claims groundless.

The Communist rogue state - accused of genocide for its crimes against the Uyghur population - has been steadily increasing its influence in recent years through investment in developing countries.