After NBI findings, OSG to file quo warranto case vs. Alice Guo 'ASAP'

The Office of Solicitor General (OSG) is looking to immediately file a quo warranto case against suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo after the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 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 told GMA News Online.

Asked when they are planning to file the case, Gueverra said, "as soon as possible."

"We’re revising our existing drafts in the light of the NBI finding," he said.

Earlier in the day, the NBI confirmed that Mayor Guo and the Chinese woman Guo Hua Ping's fingerprints are identical.

“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.

It was Senator Risa Hontiveros who initially disclosed the NBI's findings, saying this confirmed suspicions that the suspended mayor was "a fake Filipino... masquerading as a Filipino citizen to facilitate crimes."

Hontiveros also called on the OSG to hasten the filing of a quo warranto case against the embattled mayor.

Guo's identity went under close scrutiny after the police raid on the POGO hub in her constituency of Bamban, Tarlac.

Hontiveros raised the issue of Guo's identity after it was learned that her birth was registered late and that she had no school records.

To recall, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian was the one 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."

With this, the Philippine Statistics Authority has endorsed to the Office of the Solicitor General the cancellation of the embattled mayor's birth certificate.

GMA Integrated News has reached out to Guo's camp for comment but has yet to receive a response.

—RF, GMA Integrated News