The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deported a Bahraini national convicted of rape and sex crimes in his country.
BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said 44-year-old Waleed Abdulla Hamad Alsendi boarded a Gulf Air flight back to his country last Friday and was accompanied on his flight by three Bahraini police escorts who came to the Philippines to fetch him.
Morente said the alien was expelled pursuant to a summary deportation order that the BI Board of Commissioners issued against him.
The board also ordered that Alsendi be placed on the BI blacklist to prevent him from re-entering the Philippines.
“He is now banned from re-entering the country for being an undesirable alien. His presence here poses a serious threat to Filipino women as he is a sex offender,” the BI chief said.
Records showed that operatives from the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU) arrested Alsendi at his residence in Dasmariñas, Cavite last Feb. 23 on the strength of a mission order that Morente issued in response to the request of Bahraini authorities.
He was also the subject of an Interpol red notice that was issued two years ago.
The public prosecutor’s office in Bahrain issued a warrant for his arrest after he was charged with sexual assault, and possession and distribution of pornographic materials.
Investigators alleged that Alsendi fled to the Philippines in 2016 after sexually assaulting a female victim in his apartment.