The Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported that its officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have intercepted another sex offender, this time a Briton, who was convicted of child pornography in his country.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco identified the Briton as 42-year old Anthony Collins, who was denied entry at the NAIA Terminal 1 last October 14 upon his arrival from Kuwait.
Collins, according to Tansingco, is another registered sex offender (RSO) who is subject to outright exclusion under the Philippine Immigration Act.
He said the Briton was immediately booked on the first available flight to his port of origin, and placed in the BI blacklist of undesirable aliens.
According to the Interpol’s National Central Bureau (NCB) in Manila, Collins was convicted on May 27 last year by a court in Manchester, England for voyeurism and taking indecent photographs of two 16-year-old children.
The Philippine Center for Transnational Crime alerted the BI about Collins’ impending arrival in Manila, which prompted Tansingco to immediately issue a lookout order for the said British passenger.
Briton convicted of child pornography barred at NAIA
BI records show that more than 130 foreign sex offenders were already intercepted and turned back by the BI since January this year.
Tansingco had warned these aliens to avoid traveling to the Philippines as there is a very big chance that they will be denied entry by immigration officers at the airports.
“We have established a working arrangement with the different foreign missions in Manila, who regularly provide us with the names of their nationals who have been convicted of sex crimes in their country,” the BI Chief said.
Meanwhile, BI deported the latest batch of online gaming workers, who were arrested in an alleged scam hub in pasay City in August.
BI Commissioner Norman tansingco shared that the deportation of 36 Chinese nationals was conducted by the agency, in partnership with the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC).
The group was deported on board a Royal Air flight to Nanning City, china.
It can be recalled that the said Chinese nationals were arrested in a joint operations by the PAOCC, Department of Justice (DOJ), Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), Philippine National Police (PNP) and the BI at the SKK building in Pasay City.
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