Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo attends a Senate hearing. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

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Niko Baua

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172665366311220240917-senate-hearing-pogo-alice-guo-MD058.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo attends a Senate hearing. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></span><em> </em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA (<strong>2nd UPDATE</strong>) – The signature on former mayor Alice Guo&#x27;s counter-affidavit in her human trafficking case did not match her signature samples, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said Wednesday. </p><p>The NBI&#x27;s Question Document Division expert said the two signatures &quot;were not written by one and the same person.&quot;</p><p>Authorities earlier said Guo had already fled the country when Elmer Galicia, a Bulacan lawyer, notarized the counter-affidavit last August.  </p><p>Guo&#x27;s secretary Cath Salazar told senators on Tuesday that her boss had instructed her to go to her house and find a brown envelope inside a drawer. Inside the envelope, according to Salazar, was a piece of paper signed by Guo made to appear as the last page of a counter-affidavit.</p><p>Salazar recalled that Guo told her to attach the signed page to the actual counter-affidavit in her human trafficking case, which would become the subject of the questionable notarization. </p><p>At that point, Salazar claimed that she had no idea as to the whereabouts of Guo, who had already fled the country.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/17/testimony-of-alice-guos-secretary-a-puzzle-piece-in-notarization-mess-1716">READ: Testimony of Alice Guo&#x27;s secretary a puzzle piece in notarization mess</a></div><p>The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) said it was unlikely that Galicia and Guo met in person. It is seeking to junk Guo&#x27;s counter-affidavit.</p><p>Senator Risa Hontiveros, in a statement, said the NBI&#x27;s findings prove that Guo &quot;is a professional scam artist.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Her entire identity is built on lies,&quot; said Hontiveros, the chair of the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality that is leading the <a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/17/alice-guo-back-in-senate-for-pogo-hearing-839">inquiry into Guo&#x27;s ties into illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators</a> (POGOs).</p><p>&quot;Sabi niya at abugado niya, pumirma siya ng counter-affidavit bago tumakas. Pero ayon sa NBI ibang tao ang pumirma. Isa na namang kasinungalingan na dagdag sa patong patong na kasinungalingan,&quot; she added. </p><p>&quot;Mananagot dapat hindi lang ang kliyente pero ang kanyang abogado. Sana imbestigahan ito hindi lang ng DOJ pero ng Integrated Bar of the Philippines.&quot;</p><p>But Hontiveros also stressed that the NBI&#x27;s findings only raised more questions, particularly on who aided Guo&#x27;s escape.</p><p>Guo was arrested in Indonesia and brought back to the Philippines this month. </p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/18/-in-aid-of-prosecution-guo-lawyer-says-senators-don-t-have-evidence-1504">READ: &#x27;In aid of prosecution?&#x27; Guo lawyer says senators don&#x27;t have evidence</a></div><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/18/guo-faces-qualified-human-trafficking-case-before-pasig-court-1233">READ: Guo faces qualified human trafficking case before Pasig court</a></div><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/18/sual-town-wharf-may-have-been-exit-point-in-guo-escape-paocc-930">READ: Sual town wharf may have been exit point in Alice Guo&#x27;s escape: PAOCC</a></div><p>Sen. Joel Villanueva also slammed Guo and said the NBI findings were &quot;not surprising at all.&quot;</p><p>&quot;What do we expect from these criminals who have been lying to us from the very start? Dagdag na naman ito sa patong-patong na mga krimen ni Guo Hua Ping o alyas Alice. Panahon na para panagutin siya at ang kanyang mga kasama sa batas,&quot; he said in a message.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OuI6Ss8QdEM?&amp;t=10s&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>The signature on former mayor Alice Guo’s counter-affidavit in her human trafficking case did not match her signature samples, the National Bureau of Investigation said. </p>

The signature on former mayor Alice Guo’s counter-affidavit in her human trafficking case did not match her signature samples, the National Bureau of Investigation said.

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NBI flags signature mismatch on Guo counter-affidavit

Niko Baua,

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Published Sep 18, 2024 06:08 PM PHT

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