The Bureau of Immigration deported 46 Chinese fugitives who were arrested for illegally operating hundreds of online gambling computers in Makati City.
BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said the aliens left the NInoy Aquino International Airport aboard a China Southern Airlines flight to Shenyang, China, together with their police escorts from China who were there fetch them.
The deportees were among the 81 foreigners rounded up last Nov. 7 by members of the bureau’s fugitive search unit (FSU) in an operation conducted inside the Burgundy Towers along Gil Puyat Ave. where they had been illegally operating an online trading business, Morente said.
The BI agents were on a mission to capture four Chinese fugitives wanted for economic crimes but stumbled upon the other aliens during the operation.
“‹“We already placed them in our immigration blacklist to prevent them from re-entering the country,” the BI chief said.
“‹The Chinese nationals were detained for three weeks at the BI detention facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City before they were deported.
BI legal chief lawyer Arvin Cesar Santos said that the BI board of commissioners issued a summary deportation order against the Chinese nationals.
“‹Santos said the aliens were ordered expelled after the Chinese embassy informed the BI that those arrested were all fugitives wanted for cybercrimes in their homeland.
“‹“The embassy also told us that their passports were already cancelled, thus they have become undocumented aliens subject to immediate deportation,” the BI official said.