Immigration authorities barred a Norwegian pedophile from entering the country who was previously convicted for a string of sex offenses in his home country.
Kim Vegar Kristoffersen was intercepted upon his arrival via Emirates flight EK338 which arrived from Dubai at the Clark International Airport in Pampanga.
“He was immediately excluded and booked on the first available flight to his port of origin,” Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said.
“Afterwards, he was placed in our blacklist to ensure that he is denied entry again if he attempts to return to the country.”
The BI chief said that the Norwegian is just the latest arrested suspect in the bureau’s unrelenting campaign to thwart the entry of undesirable aliens, including sex offenders, into the Philippines.
He said that last year alone, BI personnel intercepted a total of 187 so-called registered sex offenders at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and other ports nationwide.
BI spokesperson lawyer Ma. Antonette Mangrobang said Kristofferson flew all the way from Oslo, Norway to visit his 16-year-old Filipino boyfriend who lives in Concepcion, Tarlac.
Mangrobang said Nordic investigators were able to trace communications and money transactions between the two lovers which enabled them to alert authorities here about Kristofferson’s scheduled trip to the Philippines.
“We have been very strict and vigilant in turning away these sex offenders because they pose a serious and real threat to Filipino children whom they might abuse if they managed to enter our country,” the BI official explained.
Citing a report from the International Justice Mission, a global NGO engaged in fighting women and child trafficking, Mangrobang said Kristofferson was convicted four times in Norway for the crime of sexually molesting children under 16 years of age.
She added that authorities have also monitored the Norwegian to be an active Internet user as he always hunts for his would-be victims via e-mail and Facebook.”‹