Bureau of Immigration (BI) agents have arrested a Chinese national for allegedly attempting to leave the country using fake immigration documents.
In a report to Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco, the BI’s border control and intelligence unit (BCIU) said 24-year-old Ning Haochao was intercepted last week at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) before he could board a Cebu Pacific flight to Xiamen, China.
He was offloaded from his flight after BI officers confirmed that the emigration clearance certificate (ECC) purportedly issued by the agency and which he presented is counterfeit.
It was also found that Ning is in the bureau’s blacklist of aliens who overstayed their tourist visa.
He is now detained at the BI's detention facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings.
“Let this serve as a warning to overstaying aliens. Do not use spurious immigration documents because such trick will not go undetected by our officers at the airport,” Tansingco said in a statement.
Tansingco said Ning presented the spurious ECC to evade immigration fines and penalties.
The BI chief said Ning will be placed in the BI blacklist, perpetually banning him from re-entering the country.