Gatchalian: Is 'Guo Hua Ping' the real Alice Guo?
The Philippine Star|June 19, 2024
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian raised this question yesterday as he released a document about the supposed real identity of suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo.
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Gatchalian: Is 'Guo Hua Ping' the real Alice Guo?

The document in black and white has the word "passport" stamped on it and was issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in Fujian on April 3, 1999.

The document has a control number of 14-5679410 for Guo Hua Ping, a student born on Aug. 31, 1990. The document had a stamp of 2003.04.04 as the "date of registry." "Alice Guo might be Guo Hua Ping who entered the Philippines on Jan. 12, 2003, when she was 13 years old. Her real birth date is on Aug. 31, 1990," said Gatchalian.

"This is according to documents provided by the Board of Investments from the Guo family's application for Special Investors Resident Visa and the Bureau of Immigration. Guo Hua Ping’s registered mother under the SIRV is Lin Wenyi,” Gatchalian added.

Guo’s inconsistencies in her documents would bolster the quo warranto proceedings against her by the Office of the Solicitor General, Gatchalian said.

Guo faced the Senate last week to answer allegations that she was backing a Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO) hub in Bamban that was raided last March, where authorities found evidence of human trafficking, serious illegal detention, physical abuse, even torture.

Earlier, Sen. Risa Hontiveros questioned Guo’s alleged ties with criminals, who were fellow incorporators of her company, Baofu Land Development Inc.

In Baofu’s 2019 Securities and Exchange Commission documents, incorporators included Mayor Guo, Filipino national Rachel Joan Malonzo Carreon, Cypriot national Zhiyang Huang, Chinese national Zhang Ruijin and Dominican national Baoying Lin.

Zhang was convicted last month for being linked to the reported “largest money laundering case in Singapore.”

Baoying also faces charges

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