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

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<img src="https://news-image-api.abs-cbn.com/Prod/editorImage/172665366311220240917-senate-hearing-pogo-alice-guo-MD058.jpg" style="width: 960px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><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. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News&nbsp;MANILA (2nd UPDATE) &ndash; The signature on former mayor Alice Guo&#39;s counter-affidavit in her human trafficking case did not match her signature samples, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said Wednesday.&nbsp;The NBI&#39;s Question Document Division expert said the two signatures &quot;were not written by one and the same person.&quot;Authorities earlier said Guo had already fled the country when Elmer Galicia, a Bulacan lawyer, notarized the counter-affidavit last August. &nbsp;Guo&#39;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.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.&nbsp;At that point, Salazar claimed that she had no idea as to the whereabouts of Guo, who had already fled the country.<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&#39;s secretary a puzzle piece in notarization mess</a>The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) said it was unlikely that Galicia and Guo met in person. It is seeking to junk Guo&#39;s counter-affidavit.Senator Risa Hontiveros, in a statement, said the NBI&#39;s findings prove that Guo &quot;is a professional scam artist.&quot;&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&#39;s ties into illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators</a> (POGOs).&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.&nbsp;&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;But Hontiveros also stressed that the NBI&#39;s findings only raised more questions, particularly on who aided Guo&#39;s escape.Guo was arrested in Indonesia and brought back to the Philippines this month.&nbsp;<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: &#39;In aid of prosecution?&#39; Guo lawyer says senators don&#39;t have evidence</a><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><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&#39;s escape: PAOCC</a>Sen. Joel Villanueva also slammed Guo and said the NBI findings were &quot;not surprising at all.&quot;&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.RELATED VIDEO:<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OuI6Ss8QdEM?&t=10s&wmode=opaque&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe>

Guo&#39;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.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.&nbsp;At that point, Salazar claimed that she had no idea as to the whereabouts of Guo, who had already fled the country.<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&#39;s secretary a puzzle piece in notarization mess</a>The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) said it was unlikely that Galicia and Guo met in person. It is seeking to junk Guo&#39;s counter-affidavit.Senator Risa Hontiveros, in a statement, said the NBI&#39;s findings prove that Guo &quot;is a professional scam artist.&quot;&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&#39;s ties into illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators</a> (POGOs).&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.&nbsp;&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;But Hontiveros also stressed that the NBI&#39;s findings only raised more questions, particularly on who aided Guo&#39;s escape.Guo was arrested in Indonesia and brought back to the Philippines this month.&nbsp;<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: &#39;In aid of prosecution?&#39; Guo lawyer says senators don&#39;t have evidence</a><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><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&#39;s escape: PAOCC</a>Sen. Joel Villanueva also slammed Guo and said the NBI findings were &quot;not surprising at all.&quot;&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.RELATED VIDEO:<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OuI6Ss8QdEM?&t=10s&wmode=opaque&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe>

The NBI&#39;s Question Document Division expert said the two signatures &quot;were not written by one and the same person.&quot;Authorities earlier said Guo had already fled the country when Elmer Galicia, a Bulacan lawyer, notarized the counter-affidavit last August. &nbsp;

<img src="https://news-image-api.abs-cbn.com/Prod/editorImage/172665366311220240917-senate-hearing-pogo-alice-guo-MD058.jpg" style="width: 960px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><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. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News&nbsp;MANILA (2nd UPDATE) &ndash; The signature on former mayor Alice Guo&#39;s counter-affidavit in her human trafficking case did not match her signature samples, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said Wednesday.&nbsp;

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.

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

NBI flags signature mismatch on Guo counter-affidavit