MORE heads will roll at the Bureau of Immigration (BI) once Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra gets his hand on the investigation report into how supposed “fictitious entries” were made in its database to make it appear that former Wirecard AG COO Jan Marsalek was in the country last month.
Guevarra said two immigration personnel have already been relieved in relation to the “fake” entry of travel records, and more will be removed once the tampering of BI records is confirmed.
“Two BI personnel were relieved, one stationed at the Mactan Cebu International Airport and the other at the head office,” Guevarra said, adding: “More heads will roll as the investigations are still continuing.”
“We’ll find out if other persons were involved, as well as their motives once the work of the BI fact-finding committee is completed. Once the fact-finding report shows culpability, the appropriate sanctions will be imposed,” he said.
Guevarra said the two immigration agents who were relieved have been temporarily transferred to other units.
On Saturday, Guevarra said Marsalek, who is at the center of the multi-billion dollar missing fund of his company, did not enter the country on June 23 as earlier shown in the BI database.
Based on CCTV footage and other records, Guevarra said Marsalek neither arrived in the country on June 23 nor did he leave Cebu for China the following day since all incoming and outgoing international flights remain suspended until now.
Guevarra has earlier cited immigration records that Marsalek arrived in the country last month.
This was on top of his first travel to the country on March 3.
“The investigation has now turned the persons who made the false entries in the BI database, their motives and their cohorts. I will direct the NBI to probe into this matter more deeply and determine possible criminal liability,” Guevarra said on Saturday.
Marsalek was earlier dismissed from his post amid Wirecard’s claims that they had $2.1 billion in funds placed under the trust of two banks in the Philippines that later went missing.
Guevarra previously directed the NBI to coordinate with the Anti-Money Laundering Council to probe certain individuals in connections with the missing funds.
