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Press Release - Sponsorship Speech Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada Senate Bill No. 2980 under Committee Report No. 525 "An Act Defining and Penalizing Espionage and Other Offenses Against National Security"

In the past few days, there had been a number of disturbing news articles reporting about the arrest of alleged spies in the country.

Last January 17, 2025, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), together with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), apprehended in Makati City a suspected (Chinese) "sleeper agent," a technical software engineer allegedly involved in espionage activities, alongside two (Filipino) cohorts. Among the confiscated equipment were, and I quote, "devices used to survey critical infrastructure such as military camps, LGU offices, power plants, police camps and even shopping malls," closed quote.

NBI said that they, I quote, "were able to establish that they engaged in ISR operations, meaning intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations, to the prejudice of our national defense considering that their targets are mostly critical infrastructures connected to national security." End of quote.

Only a few days after that, in January 30, the NBI and the AFP presented to the media five (5) foreign nationals (Chinese) suspected of espionage, following separate pursuit operations in Palawan, in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), and in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.

The suspects arrested in Palawan reportedly "set up CCTV cameras facing the sea" without the permission of the resort owner where they were staying. Residents were also alarmed when the Chinese nationals who claimed to be tourists from Taiwan were taking cellphone videos of the Philippine Coast Guard ship in the area. They were purportedly monitoring the Coast Guard and Philippine Navy activities, including the resupply missions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).

According to the Bureau of Immigration, the arrested suspects have been living in the Philippines for decades and already embedded themselves here.

No less than the AFP Chief of Staff General Romeo Brawner, Jr. admitted that these cases are just the tip of the iceberg. I quote: "Iilan pa lang ang nahuli natin, marami pa ito."

On top of these, there is the notorious case of Alice Guo or Guo Hua Ping, who was unmasked as a spy - an allegation which the dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor denies.

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