No Bureau of Immigration (BI) official will be spared liability for allowing detained foreigners’ access to cellular phones, Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla said on Thursday, Feb. 2.
“We will not spare anybody who was complicit in allowing fugitives from justice to have access to means of communication especially their business is fraud. That is not acceptable to me or to any of us,” Remulla said.
Remulla was informed by the BI that numerous mobile phones were confiscated from its detention facility. He said that one Japanese national who was found in possession of six iPhones.
The foreigner is one of four fugitive Japanese nationals in the custody of the BI and whose deportation have been sought by the Japanese government.
The four Japanese are suspected members of a robbery ring operating in Japan led by a certain “Luffy” who is believed among those detained.
“I have an idea who these people are. I will work them out after the deportation is done. I want the deportation done first before we do our own accounting within the department, but we will make people account for everything after the deportation,” Remulla said referring to BI officials involved.
He said the BI has started its investigation and the confiscated cellular telephones are being examined.
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