'Alice Guo is a professional scam artist'
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday described dismissed Bamban mayor Alice Guo as a «professional scam artist» as the signature in her Aug. 14, 2024 counter affidavit on her human trafficking case did not match her signature samples.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) reported that Guo's signatures submitted to the Department of Justice «were not written by one and the same person.»
Guo, believed to be Chinese under the name Guo Hua Ping, claimed that she signed the last page of her affidavit sometime in the first week of July or weeks before she and her siblings Shiela and Wesley fled to Sabah, Malaysia.
Former Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo. PHOTO BY RENE H DILANGuo's lawyers supported her claim on Tuesday during the resumption of the Senate public hearing on her alleged link to illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators in Tarlac.
Guo said she had instructed her secretary to get the document from her farm house and attached it to the affidavit and have it notarized. A certain Elmer Galicia, a Bulacan lawyer, notarized the counter-affidavit on August 24.
«Guo Hua Ping is a professional scam artist. Her entire identity is built on lies,» said Hontiveros, chairman of the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality, who led the inquiry.
Advertisement«She and her lawyer said that she signed the affidavit before she escaped,» the senator said in Filipino.
«But according to the NBI a different person signed [it]. This is another falsehood on top of the web of lies [of Guo],» Hontiveros said.
«The client and the lawyer should be held liable. I hope this will be investigated not only by the DoJ but by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines as well,» she said.
Hontiveros added, «But again the bigger question is: who helped facilitate this? Who aided her escape?»
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