Fingerprints match; Guo Hua Ping is Mayor Guo

The fingerprints of suspended Mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac and Chinese national Guo Hua Ping are identical, establishing that they are the same person, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) declared in its dactyloscopy report.

- MARC JAYSON CAYABYAB and MARK ERNEST VILLEZA

The report was released yesterday after a comparative examination and analysis by the NBI Organized and Transnational Crime Division.

According to the NBI, the examination was conducted between June 25 to 27 at the agency's Dactyloscopy Division in Quezon City.

Specimens used were those of Guo Hua Ping, affixed on the Alien Fingerprint Card retrieved from the NBI master files, dated March 28, 2006 and the fingerprints of Guo, affixed on the biometric printout from the NBI Information and Communication Technology Division, with a transaction date of March 10, 2021.

The report concluded that the fingerprints of Guo Hua Ping y Lin and Alice Leal Guo were affixed by the same person, confirming that Alice Leal Guo and Guo Hua Ping are one and the same.

Sen. Risa Hontiveros had requested the fingerprint examination from the NBI.

"Indeed, the NBI has confirmed that the fingerprints of Mayor Alice Guo and Guo Hua Ping match. This means these are the fingerprints of one and the same person," Hontiveros said.

"This confirms what I have suspected all along. 'Mayor Alice' - or should I say, Guo Hua Ping- is a fake Filipino. She is a Chinese national masquerading as a Filipino citizen to facilitate crimes being committed by POGO," she added.