DISMISSED Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo is in for more legal woes as the National Bureau of Investigation filed yesterday complaints for falsification and violation of the Anti-Dummy Law against her before the Department of Justice.
NBI NCR Regional Director and spokesperson Ferdinand Lavin said aside from Guo, also named as respondents in the complaint were her parents Jiang Zhong Guo and Lin Wenyi and siblings Siemen and Shiela Guo.
Lavin said they are being charged for illegally owning four parcels of land in Mangatarem, Pangasinan for their 3 Lin-Q Farm despite the fact they are ineligible to do so as they are not Filipino citizens.
“They misrepresented themselves as Filipino citizens when we were able to sufficiently establish that they are Chinese citizens,” Lavin told reporters in a brief interview at the DOJ after the filing of the complaints.
Lavin said Guo and her co-respondents also falsified and or misrepresented the incorporation papers of the company that they submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“They made it appear that they are a Filipino corporation with 65 percent local ownership. However, evidence gathered shows it is a 100 percent Chinese corporation,” Lavin said.
“They have falsified the Articles of Incorporation, the Secretary’s Certificate and the General Information Sheet,” he added.
Lavin said the NBI also got a barangay certificate from Bulacan debunking Guo’s claim that they reside in the area.
“This is an insult to our government. They are falsifying documents just to appear Filipino and enjoy privileges accorded by law to Filipino corporations and citizens,” he added.
Lavin said the NBI is also looking at initiating forfeiture proceedings of the property and assets that he said involve millions of pesos.
The complaint is the latest case to be filed against the dismissed Bamban mayor.
Early this month, Guo pleaded not guilty before a Tarlac court in the material misrepresentation case filed by the Commission on Election against her.
She is also facing a qualified human trafficking case before the Pasig City RTC and a graft case before a Valenzuela City court over her alleged involvement in the illegal operation of a POGO hub in Bamban that was raided by the authorities last March.
Qualified human trafficking is a non-bailable offense.
The Anti-Money Laundering Council and the Bureau of Internal Revenue have also filed tax evasion complaints and 87 counts of money laundering cases against her before the DOJ.
The Office of the Solicitor General has also filed a quo warranto case against Guo before the Manila RTC.
