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Castro hit anew at immigration

First Posted 07:17:00 10/14/2009

YET another immigration complaint was dropped outside the doorstep of Assistant City Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro several months after she left her assignment at the Bureau of Immigration in Central Visayas (BI-7).

In her complaint filed yesterday before the Ombudsman-Visayas Reyna Fisk, wife of American Jeffrey Fisk, alleged that Castro demanded P30,000 in payment in exchange for processing her son?s visa extension.

In a phone interview, Castro denied meeting with Fisk and referred CEBU DAILY NEWS to reporter Bong Soriano of dyHP who introduced the complainant to her.

Soriano said Castro allegedly demanded P30,000 from the complainant to process her son?s passport but added that it was a certain Normie Mante who received the payment.

Fisk alleged that Castro assured her that she would solve her son's problem in exchange for an P80,000 payment. However, the couple managed to lower the amount to P30,000.

Mante received the payment and gave the passport the following day but the Fisk couple didn?t receive a receipt as Castro promised earlier.

On returning to the country last Oct. 1, Fisk said she applied for her son's dual citizenship.

However she was told by immigration officials that it was unnecessary since he was born in the country.

Reporter Ador Vincent Mayol


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