Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday urged Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo to take a DNA test with Lin Wen Yi, her alleged biological mother, following information from the former’s sources in Valenzuela City who have worked with the Guo family.
“It is important and necessary for them to undergo a DNA test so that we will know the truth if they are related or not. Because according to the people I talked to here in Valenzuela – because they rented a warehouse here and some people worked for them – the others said Lin Wen Yi was introduced as her mother,” Gatchalian said in a radio interview.
The sources, the senator said, know Guo’s mother as “Winnie,” which can possibly be a nickname for “Wen Yi.”
“Her English name or Filipino name is Winnie so it’s not far from Wen Yi because that’s what the Chinese normally do,” Gatchalian said.
For her part, Senator Risa Hontiveros said the appearance of Guo’s parents in the Senate would dispel speculation they do not exist.
“We are hoping that Angelito Guo and Amelia Leal would attend our hearing because they are the only ones who can prove that they actually exist,” said Hontiveros, chairperson of the Senate Committee on women, children, family relations and gender equality.
The Philippine Statistics Authority told the Hontiveros-led committee they have no record of the birth certificate and marriage contract of the mayor’s parents.
“So these things became so mysterious when in fact, they are just very simple to know,” she said.
Gatchalian said based on their flight records, Guo’s father Jian Zhong Guo and Wen Yi flew together 140 times in a span of seven to eight years.
“In the corporate papers, they have fourteen corporations, seven of which have Wen Yi as an incorporator. In family businesses, that’s normal. Here in Valenzuela, almost all family businesses have that kind of setup,” he said.
He acknowledged that the Senate committee cannot force Guo and Wen Yi to undergo a DNA test.
However, if the test came out negative, Gatchalian said Guo can then justify her claim to be a “love child” of her father and his housekeeper.
Guo is being investigated by the Senate after being linked to a Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator raided for alleged human trafficking, and other illegal activities in Bamban, Tarlac.
