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<p>MANILA — A San Jose del Monte, Bulacan-based lawyer may face sanctions for notarizing dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo’s counter-affidavit earlier this month despite her reportedly having left the country in July.</p><p>Notaries public are required to make sure that the person who has a document notarized is the same person who signed it, and lawyer Elmer Galicia said earlier this week that he had personally seen and talked to Guo on August 14.</p><p>Galicia made the statement a day after Sen. Risa Hontiveros, who has been holding hearings on illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators, said <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/19/guo-has-left-philippines-says-hontiveros-1534">she had received information that Guo had already left the Philippines</a> in July.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/20/notary-insists-he-saw-alice-guo-on-aug-14-amid-reported-escape-1335">RELATED: Notary insists he saw Alice Guo on Aug. 14 amid reported escape</a></div><p>That information has since been validated by the government through their counterparts in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.</p><p>“Iimbestigahan ‘yang si Attorney Galicia na pinanagatawanan niya na humarap sa kanya si Mayor Alice Guo at sumumpa para doon sa counter-affidavit na hinain ng kampo ni Mayor Alice Guo sa Preliminary Investigation na nagaganap sa aming kagawaran,” Justice Undersecretary Nicholas Felix Ty said on Teleradyo Serbisyo.</p><p>(Attorney Galicia, who claimed that Mayor Alice Guo appeared before him for the counter-affidavit that her legal team submitted for the Preliminary Investigation at our department, will be investigated)</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/23/paocc-fast-tracking-application-for-interpol-blue-notice-vs-alice-guo-1546">RELATED: PAOCC fast-tracking application for Interpol blue notice vs Alice Guo</a></div><p>Ty said he has already talked to the multi-agency team looking into the illegal POGO in Bamban that Guo has been linked to and that they said they would look into Galicia’s potential liabilities.</p><p>He added that Galicia could face a complaint of Falsification under the Revised Penal Code.</p><p>Article 171 of the RPC penalizes public officers, employees and notaries who “[cause] it to appear that persons have participated in any act or proceeding when they did not in fact so participate” with between 6 and 12 years in prison.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/22/paocc-blocks-guo-s-counter-affidavit-over-doubtful-notarization-1444">READ: PAOCC blocks Guo’s counter-affidavit over doubtful notarization</a></div><p>Galicia could also face administrative proceedings before the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and the Supreme Court.</p><p>Galicia said on August 20 that Guo had gone to his office on August 14 to have her counter-affidavit notarized.</p><p>He said that she stayed in her vehicle during the notarization but that he was able to check her identity and exchange a few words with her.</p><div><br/></div><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/JZDPrvJdim0?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Notaries public are required to make sure that the person who has a document notarized is the same person who signed it, and lawyer Elmer Galicia said earlier this week that he had personally seen and talked to Guo on August 14.</p>

Notaries public are required to make sure that the person who has a document notarized is the same person who signed it, and lawyer Elmer Galicia said earlier this week that he had personally seen and talked to Guo on August 14.

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Lawyer faces probe over doubtful notarization of Alice Guo’s counter-affidavit

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Published Aug 24, 2024 09:56 AM PHT

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Updated Aug 24, 2024 10:36 AM PHT

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