đź“·Suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo
TAKING cue from the discovery of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the Office of Solicitor General (OSG) assured that a quo warranto case against suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo will be filed on the soonest possible time.
The OSG cited the NBI findings which confirmed that she has the same fingerprints as Chinese passport holder Guo Hua Ping.
“The NBI’s finding is the breakthrough that the OSG has been waiting for. It clears up many questions about the mayor’s true identity, including her citizenship. It will surely expedite our legal action,” Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said in a news which appeared on GMA News online portal.
As to when, Gueverra responded “as soon as possible.”
“We’re revising our existing drafts in the light of the NBI finding,” he noted.
Yesterday at the Senate, Sen. Risa Hontiveros presented a copy of the NBI report which suggests Mayor Guo and the Chinese woman Guo Hua Ping’s fingerprints are identical and therefore appears to be just one person.
“If she misrepresented herself under oath or made false statements in her certificate of candidacy and related documents, she may be held criminally liable for perjury or falsification, aside from being ousted from public office through the proper proceedings,” Guevarra said.
Hontiveros described the NBI’s findings as conclusive and a confirmation of her earler suspicion that Guo is “a fake Filipino… masquerading as a Filipino citizen to facilitate crimes.”
Guo’s identity went under close scrutiny after the police raid on the POGO hub in her constituency of Bamban, Tarlac.
Interestingly, it was Senator Sherwin Gatchalian who first raised suspicions that Guo is the same person as Guo Hua Ping, citing documents from the Board of Investments (BOI) and the Bureau of Immigration.
Gatchalian earlier presented records from the BOI of the Guo family’s application for a Special Investors Resident Visa (SIRV).
The documents showed one Guo Hua Ping entering the Philippines on January 12, 2003, when she was 13 years old.
“Alice Guo might be Guo Hua Ping who entered the Philippines on January 12, 2003, when she was 13 years old. Her real birth date is on Aug 31, 1990,” Gatchalian said.
The documents were uncovered after senators scrutinized her birth certificate and discovered that her birth registration process was “irregular,” for which the Philippine Statistics Authority endorsed the cancellation of the embattled mayor’s birth certificate. (ANGEL F. JOSE)
