NBI confirms Tarlac mayor is 'fake Filipino'

Senator Risa Hontiveros questioned whether Mayor Alice Leal Guo of Tarlac may have stolen another person's identity after discovering an individual named Alice Leal Guo in the NBI database with the same birth date and place as the suspended mayor.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confirmed through fingerprint matching that Mayor Guo is indeed Guo Hua Ping, a Chinese national masquerading as a Filipino citizen, proving she is a 'fake Filipino' and highlighting gaps in the system that allowed her to run for public office.

Visa records show that Guo Hua Ping entered the Philippines on January 12, 2003, when she was 13 years old, using a Chinese passport, with irregularities in Mayor Guo's birth registration leading to calls for the cancellation of her birth certificate.

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian urged the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to expedite filing a quo warranto case against Mayor Guo and questioned the basis of her being a public official.

The Philippine Statistics Authority recommended cancelling Guo's birth certificate due to its late registration, and Gatchalian noted that syndicates may be behind the proliferation of fake birth certificates and abuse of the late birth registration system.