BI to deport Chinese nat’l posing as ‘Pinoy’
BUREAU of Immigration (BI) said it is poised to deport a Chinese national wanted by the bureau since last year for “misrepresenting himself as a Filipino.”
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said 60-year-old Tai Fang Ching was arrested last May 16 along F.B. Harrison Street in Ermita, Manila, by agents from the BI Intelligence Division.
The arresting agents were reportedly armed with a warrant of deportation that the BI Board of Commissioners issued in July last year when it ordered the suspect’s expulsion for being an undesirable alien.
“Aliens who flaunt and make a mockery of our immigration and citizenship laws do not deserve the privilege to stay here. They should be expelled and banned from re-entering the country,” Tansingco said in a statement.
It was learned that the BI ordered Tai’s deportation after an investigation revealed that he assumed the name of one “Albert Torres Abaya,” when he filed the incorporation papers of his business with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
He also used the same fictitious name in acquiring a driver’s license from the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and in registering his business with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) as well as other public documents.
The suspect is currently detained at the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending his deportation to China.
As a consequence of the deportation, he will be included in the immigration blacklist, perpetually banning him from re-entering the Philippines.
