The Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced the arrest of a Taiwanese national wanted by authorities in Taipei for engaging in telecommunications fraud.
In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco identified the captured alien fugitive as 40-year-old Shan Yu-Hsuan, who was arrested on Friday along F.B. Harrison St., Pasay City by operatives from the BI’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU).
Tansingco said he issued a mission order for Shan’s arrest at the request of the Taiwanese government which sought his deportation so he could be tried for his crime.
“He will be deported after our BI Board of Commissioners issues the order for his summary deportation. He will also be included in our blacklist of undesirable aliens to prevent him from re-entering the country,” the BI Chief added.
A check of the Taiwanese’s travel record showed that he is already overstaying, having last arrived in the country on October 10, 2019.
Information from Taiwan revealed that a warrant for Shan’s arrest was issued on March 25, 2019 by the Ciaotou District Court in Kaoshiung. He was accused of running a call center outfit in Taiwan that engaged in voice phishing to defraud victims who are mostly abroad. The call center’s employees allegedly made random calls to victims by posing as sales agents for products sold online.
Shan is currently detained at BI Warden Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings.
2 foreign sex offenders arrive in Cebu, denied entry by BI
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said it barred from entering the country two convicted American pedophiles, who tried to enter the country via the international airport in Cebu over the weekend.
In a statement, BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said 47-year-old Neil Eugene Graves was intercepted last November 18, while 60-year old Stuart Chase Dingman was stopped the following day at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA). Both arrived via a Korean Air flight from Incheon, Seoul.
Tansingco said the two were denied entry for being registered sex offenders (RSOs) which stemmed from their conviction on sexual offenses.
Philippine immigration laws prohibit the entry of foreign nationals who have previously been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude.
According to public records, a circuit court in Kent, Michigan convicted Graves in 2011 on charges of criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree wherein the victim he molested is between 13 to 15 years of age.
Dingman was convicted multiple times in 1996 and in 1992 for assault and battery of a child in Massachusetts.
Both were immediately flown out of the country the following day via a Korean Air flight to Incheon.
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