Embattled Bamban Mayor Alice Guo refuted allegations on Wednesday that her real mother is Chinese national Wen Yi Lin.
“There are those saying Lin Wen Yi is my real mother. She is included in my family’s companies, but it is Amelia Leal who is my mother in all of the documents,” Guo stated in a letter of explanation submitted by her lawyer to the office of Senator Risa Hontiveros.
“The allegation that Amelia Leal is a non-existing person is not true. Lin Wen Yi is a companion and a business partner of my father. She is not my mother,” the letter continued.
Guo previously shared that she is her father’s love child with their helper, Amelia, who left her when she was still a child. Despite claims, the Philippine Statistics Authority has no birth records for Guo’s parents.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian earlier challenged Guo to undergo DNA testing with Wen Yi Lin to verify her nationality. Guo’s lawyer mentioned the mayor is open to such a test, though it remains uncertain whether it will involve Wen Yi Lin or Amelia Leal.
Senator Hontiveros released documents indicating that Wen Yi Lin is an incorporator in Guo’s businesses. However, a former consultant of Guo denied that Wen Yi Lin is the mayor’s biological mother.
Guo is currently under Senate investigation for her alleged involvement in the operations of Zun Yuan Technology Incorporated, a POGO entity raided by police and the military in March for illegal activities within the Baofu Land Development Inc. compound behind the Bamban Municipal Hall in Tarlac.
Hontiveros cited Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents showing Guo as an incorporator of Baofu.
Senator Gatchalian revealed his office obtained a copy of a Sangguniang Bayan resolution dated September 2020, which approved Guo’s application, as a private citizen, for the license to operate Hongsheng Gaming Technology Inc. Authorities raided Hongsheng’s establishment in February 2023. The same compound was then used by Zun Yuan Technology when it was raided in March 2024.
The Office of the Ombudsman has suspended Guo and two other local government officials for up to six months after the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) filed graft complaints against Guo over her reported involvement with the POGO hub in her town.