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TWO victims of suspected fake marriage to Chinese men were intercepted on Tuesday at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Bureau of Immigration\u2019s (BI) Immigration Protection and Border Enforcement Section (I-PROBES) reported that the two victims attempted to depart on board a Xiamen Air flight bound for China with their supposed Chinese husbands.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victims, aged 36 and 24, claimed to be China-bound to visit the families of their alleged husbands.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alias \u201cMaria\u201d presented a certificate of marriage from the office of the civil registrar but admitted that she did not sign any marriage document and no ceremony took place.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cMaria\u201d said that she was merely asked to provide her birth certificate, and their supposed marriage documents were just processed by a friend.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, alias \u201cLia\u201d presented a 2023 Philippine Statistics Authority marriage certificate with an apostille certification.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, the victim admitted that the certificate was merely processed by her husband through an agent, and no such wedding took place.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She later claimed that they had a supposed renewal of vows in 2024, and presented an affidavit signed by two witnesses.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said that most of the victims of this modus are women from the provinces who are unaware of procedures for getting married.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe have noticed that there is a trend that women hailing form provinces that are less familiar with procedures are the main targets of this modus,\u201d said Tansingco.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPrevious repatriations show that victims are made to work in the household without renumeration,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victims and their supposed Chinese husbands were turned over to the inter-agency council against trafficking for filing of appropriate cases against the recruiters and escorts.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TWO victims of suspected fake marriage to Chinese men were intercepted on Tuesday at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1. The Bureau of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357"}],"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=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5362,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}