‘Fake Filipino’: investigators say Mayor Alice Guo’s fingerprints match Chinese national’s
- Authorities have revealed evidence that embattled mayor Alice Guo, who has been accused of being a spy, is a Chinese citizen and identity thief
The National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) fingerprint examination found that Guo’s fingerprints were identical to those of a woman named Guo Hua Ping, her suspected real identity, who came to the country as a teen in 2003 with a Chinese passport.
Philippine Senator Risa Hontiveros, who is leading a Senate probe into Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos), revealed the information on Thursday.
“This confirms what I have suspected all along. ‘Mayor Alice’ is a fake Filipino – or should I say Guo Hua Ping. She is a Chinese national masquerading as a Filipino citizen to facilitate crimes being committed by Pogo,” she said in a statement.
Hontiveros said she has called on the country’s office of the solicitor general to expedite its filling of a quo warranto petition, which would determine her eligibility to hold public office on the basis of her citizenship.
