The Bureau of Immigration ordered the deportation of a Chinese fugitive wanted by Chinese authorities for economic crimes.
A certain Lin Ayong will be expelled following his arrest in Binondo, Manila by operatives from the bureau’s fugitive search unit, Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said.
Morente said he issued the mission order for Lin’s arrest at the request of the Chinese embassy in Manila and after learning that the Chinese government had already canceled the latter’s passport, thus making him an undocumented alien.
“He will be deported for being an undocumented alien and for being undesirable due to his criminal record for which he is deemed a threat to public safety and security,” the BI chief said.
BI acting spokesman Grifton Medina said Lin is now detained at the BI detention facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending issuance by the bureau’s board of commissioners of the order for his summary deportation.
“He will be placed in our immigration blacklist and banned from re-entering the Philippines,” Medina said.
Lin hid in the country since June 17 last year when he arrived in Manila as a tourist and did not leave since then.
The Chinese fugitive is the subject of a detention warrant issued by the public security bureau of Jinjiang City in Fujian, China on March 1 this year.