Libanan out to get misfits
" . . . working in the Subic Freeport for more than eight years and owing the government millions of pesos in tax due"
No one will be spared the ax once Immigration Chief Marcelino Libanan gets to the bottom of a blacklist allowing an alien to get in and out of the country.
Unamused, he has ordered a probe on Kenji Fukuda, 62, who was arrested Monday by agents of the bureau’s law enforcement division while hiding in a restroom at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
On record, Fukuda was arrested pursuant to the deportation warrant issued against him last July 31.
Libanan said the probe would allow him to identify and hold criminally liable the Immigration staff responsible for letting the blacklisted Japanese to enter and leave undetected.
“It is a serious offense for immigration officer or any government employee and private individual to help an undesirable alien slip in and out of the country.”
He has vowed that “heads will surely roll” once the probe names the officers and employees who have aided Fukuda.
Libanan said the Japanese would be deported to his homeland immediately as a result of a summary deportation order that the board of commissioners issued against him on Sept. 21 last year for working here without a permit.
Fukuda is now detained at the Bicutan immigration jail pending investigation and summary deportation proceedings.
Law enforcement chief Wilfredo Poquez said Fukuda managed to travel to the country at least seven times between May to August this year as revealed through his passport.
He told Libanan that his men had immediately positioned themselves inside the airport after he received a tip-off about Fukuda’s scheduled arrival.
“My men scoured the airport premises upon learning that a passenger, who turned to be Fukuda, aboard the flight from Jakarta, did not pass the immigration counter,” Poquez said.
He was caught around 9:30 p.m. Monday after hiding for an hour inside the male restroom at the arrival area of the Naia-2 Centennial Terminal.
He had earlier arrived from Jakarta, Indonesia, via Philippines Airlines flight PR-504 and tried to evade arrest after sensing that bureau agents were part of the welcome committee.
But an earlier report from the bureau’s Migration Complaint and Monitoring Group indicated Fukoda as a delinquent taxpayer blacklisted on a complaint of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Group chief Ferdinand Penera said he wanted to find out how the Japanese slipped in and out of the country, working in the Subic Freeport for more than eight years and owing the government millions of pesos in tax due.
Penera said Fukuda’s passport showed that he arrived Naia-1 on Sept. 21, 2006 and last May 29.
He allegedly arrived 9 a.m. last Tuesday on Japan Airlines flight 355 from Jakarta.
Fukuda is described as chief executive of Japan Medical Imaging Corp. and vice president of World Bell Philippines. Arlie Calalo
Unamused, he has ordered a probe on Kenji Fukuda, 62, who was arrested Monday by agents of the bureau’s law enforcement division while hiding in a restroom at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
On record, Fukuda was arrested pursuant to the deportation warrant issued against him last July 31.
Libanan said the probe would allow him to identify and hold criminally liable the Immigration staff responsible for letting the blacklisted Japanese to enter and leave undetected.
“It is a serious offense for immigration officer or any government employee and private individual to help an undesirable alien slip in and out of the country.”
He has vowed that “heads will surely roll” once the probe names the officers and employees who have aided Fukuda.
Libanan said the Japanese would be deported to his homeland immediately as a result of a summary deportation order that the board of commissioners issued against him on Sept. 21 last year for working here without a permit.
Fukuda is now detained at the Bicutan immigration jail pending investigation and summary deportation proceedings.
Law enforcement chief Wilfredo Poquez said Fukuda managed to travel to the country at least seven times between May to August this year as revealed through his passport.
He told Libanan that his men had immediately positioned themselves inside the airport after he received a tip-off about Fukuda’s scheduled arrival.
“My men scoured the airport premises upon learning that a passenger, who turned to be Fukuda, aboard the flight from Jakarta, did not pass the immigration counter,” Poquez said.
He was caught around 9:30 p.m. Monday after hiding for an hour inside the male restroom at the arrival area of the Naia-2 Centennial Terminal.
He had earlier arrived from Jakarta, Indonesia, via Philippines Airlines flight PR-504 and tried to evade arrest after sensing that bureau agents were part of the welcome committee.
But an earlier report from the bureau’s Migration Complaint and Monitoring Group indicated Fukoda as a delinquent taxpayer blacklisted on a complaint of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Group chief Ferdinand Penera said he wanted to find out how the Japanese slipped in and out of the country, working in the Subic Freeport for more than eight years and owing the government millions of pesos in tax due.
Penera said Fukuda’s passport showed that he arrived Naia-1 on Sept. 21, 2006 and last May 29.
He allegedly arrived 9 a.m. last Tuesday on Japan Airlines flight 355 from Jakarta.
Fukuda is described as chief executive of Japan Medical Imaging Corp. and vice president of World Bell Philippines. Arlie Calalo
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