The Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced the arrest of six alien fugitives that include four Chinese nationals wanted by authorities in Beijing for various crimes.
BI Officer-in-Charge Joel Anthony Viado said the four, identified as as Wei Hanbing, 33; Wang Bo, 32; Wang Zhaoshan, 37; and Guo Dong, 26 were nabbed by the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU) headed by Rendel Ryan Sy.
Viado said that Wei Hanbing is wanted for concealment of crime related to income while Wang Bo and Wang Zhaoshan are wanted for fraud. Guo Dong is being sought for engaging in illegal business.
Said fugitives were among the foreign nationals arrested by the police during a raid of a suspected crypto- currency investment and love scam hub in Parañaque City last Aug. 22. The raided establishment was allegedly operating under the guise of a licensed offshore gaming operator to conceal its nefarious activities.
The BI meantime, also reported the arrest of two other fugitives in separate operations by the FSU.
Wu Hsih Hsu, 53, a Taiwanese man, was nabbed last September 5 at the BI’s head office in Intramuros after being tagged as an undesirable alien. The BI reportedly received information from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in the Philippines that he faces a warrant of arrest for rape filed before a Taiwan court in 2005 and was also found to be overstaying for over 20 years.
And then last September 8, FSU agents arrested Chinese national Zhang Xi, 38, along Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, Parañaque City.
Zhang is wanted by the Chinese government and the Interpol. Two warrants of arrest was issued against him by the Cyber Police Branch of Daqing Municipal Public Security Bureau in 2023 for Illegal Control of Computer Information Systems in Violation of the Article 285 of China’s Criminal Law.
Sy said Zhang was said to head an online criminal group that has designed a computer virus that obtained personal information of its victims for use in fraud-related activities. The syndicate was said to have illegally hacked and remotely controlled around 4,200 computers in China amounting to over CNY 7 Million worth of ill-gotten profits since 2023.
All six foreigners will remain in the BI’s holding facility in Taguig pending their eventual deportation, according to Viado.
Six Alien Fugitives Nabbed By BI
