9 Chinese violating conditions of stay in the country arrested

NINE Chinese were recently nabbed by a joint team from the Bureau of Immigration and the Armed Forces for violating the conditions of their stay in the country.

Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the nine were arrested while “illegally disembarking” from three motorboats at the shoreline of Parañaque Fishport in Barangay Dongalo, Parañaque City last June 29.

Tansingco identified the nine as Li Weilin, Liu Peng, Wang Yong, Huang Haibing, Gong Yuan Ju, Zhang Tao, Dai Guang Yuan, Li Jiang Yu, and Kang Tian De.

Immigration Intelligence Division chief Fortunato Manahan said the operation was preceded by several months of surveillance and intelligence gathering after the agency received reports of Chinese boarding and disembarking vessels on Manila Bay.

Manahan said four of the arrested Chinese had passports and 9G visas based on a petition by an engineering company in the Philippines while the remaining five were undocumented.

“We have reason to suspect that these individuals are engaging in illegal work in vessels along Manila Bay,” Tansingco said.

“Their visas limit their work to a company in Pasay City and nowhere else. Foreign nationals with valid working visas, if found to be working in a different company, are violating the conditions of their stay,” he added.

The nine are detained at the BI detention facility in Bicutan, Taguig City pending their deportation to China.