Filipino Chinese Guo Huaping: Mayor? Spy? Backstage of the cyber fraud park? Accomplice in the NT$3 billion money laundering case in Singapore?

TL;DR
1.Guo Huaping: I am an illegitimate child, and my mother is a Filipino maid. I am not a spy.
2.Identity remains a mystery: The National Bureau of Investigation offers a reward of 50,000 pesos to find another "Alice Guo"
3.Expelled from the Philippine Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC)
4.The telecom fraud park is involved in the 3 billion Singapore money laundering case

Alice Guo (Guo Huaping), a Chinese female mayor born in the 1980s in the Philippines who was recently suspended for investigation, has been in the spotlight, with reports from the Philippine media to the BBC and Bloomberg. The latest development this week is that the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) of the Philippines is preparing to file a lawsuit against her, and is also applying to cancel Guo Huaping's fake birth certificate.

Before the suspension, Guo Huaping had been expelled from the NPC (Philippine Nationalist People's Coalition). The investigators believed that she was involved in the Bamban telecom fraud park case and the 3 billion Singapore dollar money laundering case in Singapore. Some media even called her a "Chinese spy" and she has been under residential surveillance.

Guo Huaping: I am an illegitimate child, my mother is a Filipino maid, and I am not a spy

Huaping Kuo, a former mayor of Bamban, Tarlac, who is currently under criminal investigation, was unable to answer some questions about her family history and upbringing at the Senate hearing, leading one senator to question whether she was a "spy" for Beijing.

"I want to tell the public: I am not a spy. I am Filipino and I love my country," Kuo said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel, revealing that she is the "illegitimate child" of her Chinese father and a Filipino maid.

Kuo said her mother left her when she was a baby and she and her father grew up on a pig farm in Tarlac, an agricultural province north of the capital Manila.

"I am the illegitimate child of my father and the maid... This is a very private matter. I cannot tell anyone that my mother abandoned me," she said.

She apologized to the senators because "my mind went blank" during her testimony.

At the Senate hearing, Kuo admitted that her birth certificate was not registered until she was 17. She said she was born at home, not in a hospital. She also claimed to be home-schooled but could not provide further details.

Suspicions grew further when it was discovered that she registered to vote in Bamban town in 2021, a year before her successful mayoral campaign.

Guo said she was ashamed of her illegitimate status, so she spent most of her time at her family’s pig farm.

Aside from scant details about her birth and education, lawmakers questioned how Guo could have known nothing about the criminal activities that underlay offshore casinos. These companies are known as Philippine offshore gaming companies, or Pogos.

The offshore gaming company that provided a front for the Bamban gang was built on land that Guo partially owned, but she said she sold her shares before she was elected in 2022.

Police also found a helicopter and a Ford Conquistador registered to Guo’s name, but she claimed that these items had long been sold.

“I will not resign. I will continue to serve my constituents,” she said.

Identity unknown: National Bureau of Investigation offers 50,000 pesos reward for another ‘Alice Leal Guo’

Alice Guo's identity is a mystery as the National Bureau of Investigation has found another "Alice Guo" in its database, but her fingerprints - if she exists - do not match those of suspended Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo.

The National Bureau of Investigation has found another "Alice Guo" in its database, but her fingerprints - if she exists - do not match those of suspended Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo.

NBI Director Jaime Santiago yesterday said the latest "Alice Guo" listed her address in 2005 as 138 Calantio Street, Quezon City, and shared the same birthday as the fallen mayor - July 12, 1986.

"Alice Guo's fingerprints do not match those of the mayor," Santiago said, adding that the NBI has no record of a woman named "Alice Guo" in the area.

The NBI's findings last week sparked calls for her removal as mayor. The mayor's fingerprints matched those of Guo Huaping, a 13-year-old Chinese girl who entered the Philippines in January 2003.

A TV report said the NBI has offered a reward of P50,000 to anyone who can provide information on the true identity or whereabouts of the latest “Alice Guo.”

In response to the latest NBI findings, Senator Gatchalian said the agency should investigate to find out if the person is real.

“But this does not obscure the fact that Alice Guo and Guo Hua Ping’s fingerprints match, so they are the same person,” he said.

Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros denied the discovery of another “Alice Guo,” saying that even if 10 other Alice Guos have surfaced publicly, Mayor Guo is the only Chinese citizen elected mayor.

“The focus of the investigation is Alice Guo, she is not a Filipino,” she stressed.

Another fake Filipino: Guo Hua Ping’s brother Guo Xiangdian

Gatchalian said the NBI found that Guo Xiangdian is Wesley Leal Guo, one of Mayor Guo’s siblings, another piece of evidence of the Guo family’s abuse of delayed birth records.

Gatchalian said the NBI cross-matched Guo Xiangdian’s fingerprints extracted from BI records with Wesley Leal Guo’s fingerprints extracted from BI biometric records and found an exact match.

“Guo Xiangdian arrived in the Philippines in 1999 and was listed as the minor son of Lin Wen Yi, making him Guo Hua Ping’s younger brother,” Gatchalian said.

Lin Wen Yi is suspected to be the biological mother of Guo Hua Ping, a 13-year-old Chinese girl who entered the country in 2003.

He said Wesley was the promoter of CDAG Realty Corporation, and Mayor Guo is the majority shareholder of the company.

He added: "This once again shows that the Kuok family abused the registration process and falsely claimed that they were Filipinos."

Involved in Singapore's 3 billion major money laundering case

According to a report by Chinese media Caixin magazine, a female mayor of Chinese descent in the Philippines was involved in a major money laundering case in Singapore. On May 22, the Philippine Senate hearing accused the 37-year-old female mayor of Bamban City, Luzon, of acting as a protective umbrella for suspects in the Singapore money laundering case and revoked her control over the local police force.

The Philippine Senate is investigating Guo's connection with Philippine offshore gaming companies (POGOs) and criminals. Guo is the founder and major shareholder of at least 11 companies. The authorities found that the partners of some of Guo's companies were the suspects in the Singapore money laundering case, couple Lin Baoying and Zhang Ruijin.

NPC expelled Bamban Mayor Guo from the party

The Philippine Nationalist People’s Alliance, led by former Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, has decided to remove controversial Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo from the party’s membership.

The move was in response to a petition filed by Tarlac Governor Susan Yap on Monday, June 17, asking for the mayor to be removed from the party’s membership list.

On Saturday, June 22, Sotto cited several issues involving the mayor, including a suspension order issued by the Ombudsman due to an administrative complaint of graft filed by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).

Guo faces multiple charges, with numerous members of the accused group.

Additionally, the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Council (PAOOC) filed a human trafficking case linking her to a "major labor trafficking conspiracy involving about 500 foreign POGO workers."

Other defendants in the complaint include former government officials Dennis Cunanan, Zhang Ruijin, Lin Baoying, Rachelle Joan Carreon, Huang Zhiyang, Thelma Laranan, Rowena Evangelista, Rita Yturralde, Merlie Joy Castro, Yu Zheng Can, Jaimielyn Cruz, Roderick Paul Pujante and Juan Miguel Alpas.

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