The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) on Monday filed a quo warranto petition against suspended Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo, which may result in her removal from public office.
“This morning,” Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said in a message to reporters as he shared the first page of the petition.
In the petition filed with the Manila Regional Trial Court, the respondent was indicated as “Guo Hua Ping a.k.a. Alice Leal Guo.”
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in June confirmed that Guo and Chinese passport holder Guo Hua Ping have the same fingerprints.
In early July, the OSG filed a petition seeking to cancel Guo’s birth certificate. Guevarra earlier said if cancelled, Guo would lose her most important defense evidence about her identity.
He also said the petition to cancel Guo’s birth certificate and the quo warranto petition would complement each other.
Guo, for her part, has denied the allegations against her.
It was Senator Sherwin Gatchalian who first raised suspicions that Alice Guo and Guo Hua Ping were the same person, 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.
“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 Guo failed to provide details of her childhood and background to the Senate and after senators scrutinized her birth certificate, which was registered late. —KBK, GMA Integrated News
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