BI NABS CHINESE FUGITIVE WANTED BY INTERPOL

A CHINESE national wanted by Beijing authorities for involvement in illegal gambling was arrested by Bureau of Immigration (BI) authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).

Immigration Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado identified the passenger as Huang Sen, 38, who was intercepted last January 11 at the departure area of the NAIA Terminal 1.

Viado said Huang was arrested after the BI officer who processed him saw that his name appeared in the Bureau’s Interpol derogatory system.

The BI official said a red notice for Huang’s arrest was issued by Interpol Beijing on Dec. 4 last year at the request of the Chinese government.

The alien fugitive was later committed to the BI detention facility in Taguig City while awaiting deportation.

“He will be deported for being an undesirable alien and placed in our blacklist of undesirable aliens to prevent him from re-entering the country,” the BI chief said.

According to BI-Interpol unit acting chief Peter de Guzman, a warrant for Huang’s arrest was issued by the Public Security Bureau of the Luojiang district in Deyang, China on Aug. 27 last year.

De Guzman said the case stemmed from allegations that Huang conspired with other suspects in running illegal gambling sites in the Internet which catered to online customers worldwide.

The gambling syndicate reportedly employed the services of more than 70,000 people who induced more than one million Chinese customers to gamble on their websites.

It is estimated that more than 700 billion yuan, or US$95 billion, in gambling funds were betted in the gambling activities managed by the syndicate from which the latter earned no less than 2 billion yuan, or US$272 million in profits.

Chinese authorities have pinpointed Huang as the alleged head of the syndicate’s betting department.