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Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo testifies at the Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024 as she faces questions on her identity and alleged ties to a raided POGO hub in her town. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo testifies at the Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024 as she faces questions on her identity and alleged ties to a raided POGO hub in her town. The Senate resumed its investigation on the alleged human trafficking and cyber fraud ops in Clark and Tarlac. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

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TARLAC-MAYOR

Sherrie Ann Torres

ABS-CBN News

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172171860181120240522-mayor-alice-guo-VU2A7725-MD.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo testifies at the Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024 as she faces questions on her identity and alleged ties to a raided POGO hub in her town. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo testifies at the Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024 as she faces questions on her identity and alleged ties to a raided POGO hub in her town. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA (<strong>UPDATED/CORRECTED</strong>) -- New pieces of evidence against suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo continue to pile up, solidifying the government&#x27;s would-be case against the embattled local chief executive.</p><p>The increase of evidence against Guo has also delayed the Office of the Solicitor General&#x27;s filing of its quo warranto petition against the suspended official.</p><p>With all these developments, the OSG is eyeing to file the quo warranto petition this month, Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said.</p><p>&quot;Actually dapat na-file na namin nun pa petition for quo warranto. Kaya lang evidence keeps on  turning up, na lalo magpapatibay to what we already have. Kaya naman ini-incorporate lang namin yung mga new evidence that turned up sa senate inquiry at we are consolidating everything and we are hoping to file the petition for quo warranto before the end of this month,&quot; Guevarra told journalists in a news conference Tuesday, on the Memorandum of Agreement signing between the OSG, Commission on Elections, National Amnesty Commission and the Presidential Task Force on Media Security. </p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/22/after-no-show-guo-challenged-by-doj-paocc-to-face-panel-of-prosecutors-1622">READ: After no-show, Guo challenged by DOJ, PAOCC to face panel of prosecutors</a></div><p>This early, Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia is also offering its evidence against Guo, specifically the evaluation of the mayor&#x27;s fingerprints when she filed her Certificate of Candidacy in 2021, and when she voted May of 2022.</p><p>&quot;Dadagdagan natin ang evidence na magagamit ng SolGen. At sure ako, yung findings natin makakadagdag sa quo warranto petition na ipa-file ng SolGen,&quot; Garcia said.</p><p>(We will give additional evidence to the SolGen. And we are sure that our findings will further help the quo warranto petition that the SolGen will file)</p><p>On Thursday, Garcia and his team, which include their fingerprint analysts, will be visiting the COMELEC office in Tarlac to personally check the documents surrounding Guo&#x27;s voting records.</p><p>Whatever will be gathered from this visit will be added to the COMELEC&#x27;s evidence when they file their administrative and criminal case against Guo.</p><p>&quot;May fingerprints na andun din, sa EDCVL (Election Day Computerized Voters&#x27; List). May signature, may fingerprints, may picture siya dun, pwede namin makita yun. Yung mga yun siguradong makakatulong sa SolGen kung ano man findings ng COMELEC sa bagay na yan,&quot; Garcia said.</p><p>(Fingerprints are there. There&#x27;s signature, fingerprints, and pictures that we could see. All these can surely help the SolGen)</p><p>And with the President&#x27;s strong directive to concerned government agencies to ban POGOs, the COMELEC is confident that come election period, the issue of &quot;POGO politics&quot; will no longer be a problem in the country, according to Garcia.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/22/marcos-jr-orders-pogos-to-cease-operations-by-end-of-year-1603">READ: Marcos: &#x27;Effective today, all POGOs are banned&#x27;</a></div><p>&quot;Ibang politics naman. Narco politics, jueteng politics, ibang politics naman ang ating babantayan. Wala nang POGO politics,&quot; Garcia declared.</p><p>(No more POGO politics. We have other political concerns. Narco politics, jueteng politics. We will be guarding other politics)</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/Nnv2xAyzIIE?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>The increase of evidence against Guo has also delayed the Office of the Solicitor General's filing of its quo warranto petition against the suspended official.</p>

The increase of evidence against Guo has also delayed the Office of the Solicitor General's filing of its quo warranto petition against the suspended official.

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OSG to file quo warranto petition vs. Guo before end of July

Sherrie Ann Torres,

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Published Jul 23, 2024 03:11 PM PHT

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Updated Jul 23, 2024 05:59 PM PHT

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