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THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Monday said it arrested a Chinese national and two Filipino cohorts believed to be involved in espionage activities in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nabbed were Chinese Deng Yuangqing, and his alleged Pinoy cohorts<\/strong> Ronel Jojo Balundo Besa and Jason Amado Fernandez.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NBI Director Jaime B. Santiago said Yuangging is a specialist in engineering, control engineering and automation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The suspects were caught last Friday in a condominium in Makati.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to <\/strong>Santiago, the suspects had been traveling Luzon since Dec. 8, 2024 using a Toyota Rav-4 equipped with suspected surveillance items.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Based on their investigation, Yuangqing, <\/strong>Balundo and Fernandez <\/strong>had been located near Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) sites, raising alarm on national security.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NBI Cybercrime Division chief Jeremy Lotoc said when they arrested Yuangging, they asked him if he was a licensed surveyor, or if he represented a research institution, or if he came from a private company, whether he was a military or a law enforcer.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lotoc said the Chinese national failed to present permit or any license or authority.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI think he has been in the country for five years or more already. And we believe that he can be dubbed as a \u2018sleeper\u2019 because, through our monitoring, he was acting just like an ordinary person,\u201d said Lotoc.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lotoc added that aside from military and police camps, power plants, and malls, the suspects also frequented EDCA sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The NBI and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said found in Yuangging\u2019s vehicle were <\/strong>advanced espionage devices, including tools for data collection and transmission.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Among the equipment recovered was a GNSS RPK Global Navigation Satellite System capable of generating 3D images of target structures.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n An espionage complaint in connection with cybercrime was filed by tne NB against the suspects before the Department of Justice (DOJ).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Monday said it arrested a Chinese national and two Filipino cohorts believed to be involved in espionage activities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11383,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions\/11383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}