6 of 204 Chinese men held in Tarlac POGO raid found to be fugitives
SIX of the 204 Chinese nationals held in the March 13 raid on a POGO firm in Bamban, Tarlac found to be involved in illegal online activities turned out to be fugitives in Mainland China, the Journal Group learned yesterday.
“After a verification with our foreign counterparts, we discovered that the six male Chinese nationals are wanted in Mainland China but managed to seek refuge in our country,” said Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission Executive Director Undersecretary Gilbert DC Cruz.
The six were identified as Wang Tao, 49; Cao Junpeng, 34; Jiang Ling, 33; Zhou Binbin, 34; Wang Dechao, 36; and Shi Xiangling, 27.
Wang and Xiangling are both wanted for fraud while Jung is wanted for creating public disturbance in China. Ling is the subject of a warrant of arrest for aiding information network criminal activities while Binbin is wanted for running a gambling house.
Dechao is wanted for illegally crossing the national border.
Cruz said they are coordinating with the Bureau of Immigration for the immediate deportation of the six to China.
The six are among the 283 foreign nationals found to be undocumented aliens during the Bamban raid aimed at rescuing several Malaysian nationals. They include 204 Chinese nationals, 14 Malaysians and 53 Vietnamese. The rest are from Rwanda, Kyrgistan and Indonesia.
The operation saw officers from the PAOCC, the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, the Women and Children Protection Center, Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group, Intelligence Group, the Anti-Cybercrime Group, the Police Regional Office 1 and the Cordillera Police Regional Office searching all 36 buildings inside the Bamban compound.
The PNP has recommended that all structural and financial properties recovered during the raid be forfeited in favor of the government, which was also lauded by other Asian law enforcement leaders to effectively shutting down the Zun Yuan Technology Inc. located in Sitio Pagasa in Barangay Anupul in Bamban municipality last March 13.
The raided firm was accused of conducting computer-related fraud by luring female and male victims from China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, the United States, Canada and other countries that they can penetrate with the intent to deceive and gain monetary investment from their customers.
