The third batch Chinese nationals were arrested for allegedly operating illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO).
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco stressed they will not allow undesirable aliens in the country and assured they will be barred from coming back to the Philippines.
"As a consequence of deportation, their names have been included in the Bureau of Immigration’s blacklist, effectively barring them from returning to the Philippines.We will not allow such undesirable aliens to remain in our country," Tansingco said.
According to (ret) Gen. Ronaldo Mendoza- Staff Officer IV of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC), this is the third batch of deportees, all of them are Chinese nationals.
Mendoza said the first batch of deportees include 75 Chinese who are now all blacklisted and departed on September 22, while the second batch were 14 Malaysian nationals.
“Meron silang mga Immigration violation, overstaying, walang working permit so they have to be deported,” he said.
Mendoza adds, these Chinese deportees will board a Royal Air flight Friday night, October 13 going to Nanning City, China.
In a text message, PAOCC Undersecretary Gilbert Cruz said, this is the result of an operation by the inter-agency task force led by PAOCC, DOJ, BI, CICC, NBI, and the PNP against Rivendell Global Gaming Corporation, a POGO site in Pasay City with cancelled permit.
Cruz said, upon their arrival in Nanning City, these 36 Chinese deportees will be detained for more than a month while being investigated.
“Upon their arrival in Nanning City, they will be detained for more than a month while being investigated. Since gambling is illegal in China, the fact that they were caught in an illegal gambling site, they are deemed subjects of interest for possible criminal violations.”
Cruz ads, at present, PAOCC has facilitated the deportation of 125 foreign nationals.
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