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Suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo could become stateless and lose all her properties in the Philippines after a National Bureau of Investigation exam showed her fingerprints are identical with those of Chinese national Guo Hua Ping.

Sen. Risa Hontiveros said the matching fingerprints of Alice Guo and Guo Hua Ping are the damning evidence to pin down the suspended mayor and strip her of her position for lying about being a Filipino.

National Bureau of Investigation chief Jaime Santiago explained how they concluded the matching of fingerprints of Alice Guo and Guo Hua Ping through dactyloscopy, the science of fingerprint identification.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is mulling the filing of an election offense case against Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo for making false claims when she filed her certificate of candidacy (COC) in the 2022 polls.

"Even if she gets a penalty of deportation, if she is convicted in any of the cases, she will first have to serve her sentence in the Philippines," Hontivero said in Filipino.