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Guo to take DNA test
By Nidz Godino
“I call on the two to have DNA test to find out if they are related or not…she has nothing to lose,” Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian has dared Bamban Mayor Alice Guo to take DNA test amid allegations that she lied about having Filipino househelp as mother.
Gatchalian made challenge after Senate investigation on Guo’s alleged links to illegal offshore gaming activities bared more disturbing details about her family.
He said Guo’s family business corporate records showed Guo’s father Jian Zhong Guo, siblings Shiela and Seimen, and certain Lin Wen Yi, as incorporators. Lin Wen Yi is allegedly her Chinese mother with Filipino name “Winnie.”
Gatchalian has sources in Valenzuela, his family’s political turf, that Guo family used to have warehouse there and that people knew Lin Wen Yi or “Winnie” as the mother.
“Filipino name ‘Winnie’ is also not far from name ‘Lin Wen Yi,’ and an English version of Chinese name that is usually done in Chinese families,” Gatchalian said.
It is also customary for family-owned businesses to include members of the family as their incorporators, he added.
Guo patriarch’s travel records with Lin Wen Yi at least 170 times in span of six years – also indicated that the two were more than just business partners, Gatchalian said.
There is also 13-year age gap between two Jian Zhong Guo was born in 1958, while Lin Wen Yi was born in 1971, Gatchalian said, citing incorporation records.
This meant that while patriarch was of legal age, the mother was just 15 years old when she gave birth to Alice Guo, and 13 years old when she birthed eldest, Shiela.
But Gatchalian questioned accuracy of dates of their birth years because of gaps already seen in their records, such as different dates of marriage with alleged Filipino househelp mother.
Reacting to Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III’s observation that focus of Senate probe has shifted from possible criminality issue to sordid family drama, Gatchalian had merely expanded probe to include possible money laundering activities in Guo’s businesses.
Gatchalian earlier alleged that Guo family’s companies could have been used for money laundering, as shown by their farm and embroidery business posting cash flow despite not making income.
“We are not being sidetracked, because we need to see all personalities involved…this is large-scale money laundering involving several people, led by ‘enabler’ who opened door for criminality to enter the country,” Gatchalian said.
Next Senate hearing will be executive session because of authorities’ ongoing investigation on Guo’s alleged role in illegal offshore gaming activities.
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