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BI bags Chinese fugitive at NAIA

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Immigration agents have arrested a Chinese woman wanted by the authorities in Beijing for alleged involvement in human trafficking.

BI intelligence chief Fortunato Manahan Jr. identified the suspect as 39-year-old Zheng Yuyu, who was intercepted as she was about to leave for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia through the NAIA Terminal 2.

Manahan said members of the BI’s border control and intelligence unit (BCIU) arrested Zheng before she could board a Philippine Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur..

BI chief Norman Tansingco ordered the woman’s commitment to the BI warden facility at Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City where she would remain while undergoing deportation proceedings.

The BI board of commissioners, which Tansingco chairs, is expected to issue an order for Zheng’s summary deportation and her inclusion in the bureau’s blacklist of undesirable aliens. Vito Barcelo

According to BI-BCIU overall deputy chief Joseph Cueto, Zheng has been on the BI’s wanted list since April 9 this year when she, along with another Chinese named Chen Dongxin, was charged with deportation by the bureau’s prosecutors for being undesirable aliens.

Cueto said the charges against Zheng and Chen were filed after the Chinese embassy in Manila informed the BI that the two are wanted in their country for large-scale human trafficking.

They were accused of alleged organizing people to illegally and secretly cross China’s territorial borders.

Cueto added that Chen, who remains at large, is an undocumented alien as his Chinese passports has already expired.

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