The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said its agents have arrested three Chinese nationals who are fugitives wanted for a string of criminal cases here and in China.
In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the aliens were arrested Aug. 13 in Bgy. Tambo, Parañaque City by operatives from the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU). They were identified as Jun Chen, 28; Hongru Zhang, 26; and Hao Zhen, 27.
Tansingco bared that the arresting team was armed with a mission order which he issued at the request of the Chinese government which informed the BI about the fugitives’ presence in the country.
The BI chief stressed that the trio cannot not be deported yet as they have yet to face criminal charges for robbery, grave coercion, illegal detention, gun possession, and illegal drugs trading that police have filed against them before the Parañaque City prosecutor’s office.
“They can only be deported after the criminal cases against them are resolved and, if convicted, they will have to first serve their sentence in jail,” Tansingco explained.
The criminal cases were filed after police rescued a Vietnamese national who was kidnapped and illegally detained by the said Chinese nationals.
According to BI-FSU acting chief Rendel Ryan Sy, two of the three Chinese nationals are subjects of arrest warrants issued by the public security bureau in Jinjiang, China while the other one is an overstaying alien.
Sy said all three are now undocumented aliens as their passports were already canceled by the Chinese government.
The aliens were in the temporary custody of the Parañaque police pending resolution of their criminal cases.
