By Jun Ramirez
Agents of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) have arrested an alien fugitive wanted for economic crimes in his country.
BI Commissioner Jaime Morente identified the fugitive as 36-year-old Shi Hongye who was nabbed on April 15 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) by operatives from the bureau’s fugitive search unit (FSU).
Morente said Shi will be sent back to China as he was already issued a summary deportation order by the BI board of commissioners on Nov. 17 last year for being an undesirable alien.
He said the arresting agents chanced upon Shi during an operation to capture another Chinese fugitive, named Miao You Chun, who did not appear at the scene.
Miao, like his compatriot Shi, is also in the BI’s wanted list for being a fugitive wanted for economic crimes in China.
BI intelligence officer and FSU chief Bobby Raquepo disclosed that Shi is also an undocumented alien as his passport was already cancelled by the Chinese government.
Raquepo said Shi was ordered deported as his presence here was deemed inimical to public interest.
He added that the fugitive will be deported as soon as the Chinese embassy issues him his travel documents.
