Television host and comedienne Marietta Subong, more popularly known as Pokwang, yesterday filed a deportation case before the Bureau of Immigration against her ex-partner Lee O’ Brian.
She was accompanied by her legal counsel, Ralph Calinisan, in filing the case.
In her 35-page complaint, Subong said her former partner should be deported for violating immigration laws by using his tourist visa to work in the country.
“Lee O’Brian must be made accountable for continuously engaging in employment without obtaining the required permit allowing him to do the same and for repeatedly renewing his tourist visa for purposes of employment,” it said.
“Lee O’Brian’s repeated renewal of his tourist visa constitutes fraud and willful misrepresentation of facts, while his work engagements are violations of limitations under which he was admitted as a non-immigrant,” it added.
Subong also cited his alleged womanizing ways in asking that he be deported.
“He is not only a womanizer, but more, he behaves as such in a manner that is scandalous to the point that my name is being dragged and put to shame. I would not bat an eyelash on this fact if it was only me who is the victim, but this situation also involves my daughter,” she further said.
Subong and O’Brien got to know each on the set of the movie “EDSA Woolworth,” which was shot in the United States.
Their relationship lasted for six years until December 2021.
BI Deputy Spokesperson Melvin Mabulac said it is anybody’s right to file a deportation case against any foreign national.
“Deportation case may be filed against foreign national who has been undesirable under the immmigration laws,” Mabulac said.
Mabulac, however,. declined to provide additional details on the complaint.
