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MANILA, Philippines—A Chinese national who is wanted by authorities in Beijing for fraud and swindling has been arrested by immigration agents and will face deportation proceedings, the immigration bureau said Thursday.
Arrested on July 3 by operatives of the Bureau of Immigration’s intelligence division was Guo Zhao Fu a.k.a. Sun Zhenping, 44. He was turned over to the newly created BI Interpol unit tasked to run after foreign fugitives.
Guo was collared inside an apartment near the SM Centerpoint Mall in Sta. Mesa, Manila, and was brought to the immigration jail in Bicutan where he is now detained pending deportation proceedings.
Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan described the Chinese fugitive’s arrest as another proof of the immigration bureau’s resolve to cleanse the country of wanted foreign criminals who have sought refuge here to evade prosecution for their crimes.
Associate Commissioner Enrique Galang Jr. said the arrest of Guo was made on the request of the Chinese embassy in Manila.
Galang said the embassy’s police attache informed the bureau that Guo had used a tampered Chinese passport under the name of Sun Zhenping when he entered the country last February to conceal his real identity.
“His passport was already cancelled by the Chinese government, thus he is now an undocumented alien,” Galang added.
According to Faizal Hussin, the bureau’s intelligence chief, Guo was charged with fraud before the Changchun Provincial Public Security Bureau in Jilin, China, in April last year.
Hussin said the fugitive gained notoriety as a professional swindler as he was able to entice many of his victims to invest their money in an enterprise that turned out to be fictitious.
Hussin also said that Guo had traveled in and out of the Philippines at least five times since 2006 until April 2008 using his original passport and that his last arrival was on Feb. 28 this year when he used his altered passport.
