The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday created a tracker team to look for a missing Chinese national allegedly involved in the operations of a Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators POGO) facility in Pasay City.
“We received a report yesterday that there is allegedly a missing Chinese national from the Pasay raid site in Rivendell,” DOJ spokesman Mico Clavano said in an interview.
Clavano said the tracker team will include members of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Bureau of Immigration’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU).
“We are doing everything to get him back,” Clavano said.
He said the missing Chinese national was among the 27 people who were recommended to be charged for violation of the Cybercrime Prevention Act.
Clavano said the Chinese national was detained at the POGO facility in Pasay.
“We don’t have a complete handle on all the exit and entry points. There are many windows and emergency doors that, well, we have put guards there, but we don’t know them as well as the scammers know them,” Clavano admitted.
According to him, they must determine who was guarding the room of the missing Chinese as members of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission, the Philippine National Police, the NBI, and FSU were present.
Gloria Quintos, lawyer of the missing Chinese national, said she was also looking for her client.
“They informed me that they don’t have in their custody one of the respondents who is supposed to be in detention,” the lawyer said.
Quintos said she could not say whether his client had escaped.