IMMIGRATION officers assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport intercepted and barred from entering the country a Chinese sought by Interpol for credit card fraud.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the 29-year-old Chinese, whose name was withheld in compliance with Interpol protocols, was intercepted last week at the NAIA Terminal 1 after arriving via an Eva Air flight from Taipei, Taiwan.
Quoting a report from BI-Interpol chief Jaime Bustamante, Tansingco said the man was turned back after the immigration officer who processed him saw that his name was on the bureau’s list of blacklisted foreigners.
The blacklist order stemmed from a blue notice issued by Interpol in November 2022 regarding the criminal case pending against the Chinese.
Tansingco said a criminal case was filed against the man 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.
“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,” Tansingco said, quoting the information provided by Interpol.
