Chinese fugitive wanted for credit card fraud barred from entering PH
A 29-year-old fugitive Chinese national wanted in his country for credit card fraud was barred from entering the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Wednesday, April 3.
The bureau said in a statement the Chinese national, whose identity had been withheld in compliance with the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) protocols, was intercepted last week upon his arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 from Taiwan.
Citing a report from BI Interpol Unit Chief Jaime Bustamante, the bureau said “the suspect was turned back after the immigration officer who processed him saw that his name is in the bureau’s list of blacklisted foreign nationals.”
“It was learned a criminal case was filed against the suspect in April 2019 by the municipal public security bureau in Baoding City, Hebei province, China for allegedly facilitating the sale of his relatives’ credit cards to criminal fraud syndicates,” disclosed the BI.
“Investigators bared that the man is suspected to have committed the crime between December 2018 to February 2019 when he asked his sister to convince 39 of their relatives to advertise the sale of their credit cards online,” it added.
After the credit cards got bought by criminal gangs abroad, the BI said the suspect “later fled China and absconded with the money that he earned from the transaction.”
“A criminal detention warrant was subsequently issued against him by the Baoding public security bureau,” the BI noted.