Tax-dodging alien nabbed at air terminal
the 50-year-old Japanese executive owed the government millions of pesos while working in the Subic Bay Freeport for more than eight years
A Japanease businessman who was banned from entering the country for cases of tax fraud was arrested upon arriving at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Kenji Fukuda, chief executive of Japan Medical Imaging Corp., and vice president of World Bell Philippines, was immediately deported to his port of origin.
He flew in 9 a.m. yesterday on Japan Airlines flight 355 from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Ferdinand Penera, Bureau of Immigration’s Migration Complaint and Monitoring Group chief, said Fukuda was included in the blacklist based on a complaint by the Bureau of International Revenue that he was a delinquent taxpayer since 2004.
On record, the 50-year-old Japanese executive owed the government millions of pesos while working in the Subic Bay Freeport for more than eight years.
Penera said he would find out how Fukuda managed to go in and out of the country despite being blackballed.
Fukuda’s passport showed that he arrived at the Naia Terminal-1 on Sept. 21, 2006 and last May 29.
Earlier, 14 Filipino women were prevented from leaving for Singapore after turning out to be tourists intending to work there.
The group—the youngest at 19— were waiting at the airline check-in counter when National Bureau of Investigation agents under the Anti-Human Smuggling Task Force invited them for questioning.
During the interview, one admitted that she would work as a waitress and that somebody would fetch them at the Singapore airport upon their arrival.
While all 14 had valid Philippine passports, round-trip tickets and $500 each as show money, they failed to show any hotel accommodation or to indicate where they planned to stay.
They were supposed to board a JetStar airline flight JS 533 bound for Singapore at 12:45 p.m. Sunday.
The Naia-NBI, headed by Rosalinda Chong, has intensified its drive by profiling outbound Filipinos seeking jobs abroad right at the airline counter.
The bureau said a more rigid screening was needed because when a “tourist worker” managed to check-in, the person could easily pass the immigration counter by merely showing a passport and a plane ticket. Vito Barcelo - Manila Standard Today
A Japanease businessman who was banned from entering the country for cases of tax fraud was arrested upon arriving at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Kenji Fukuda, chief executive of Japan Medical Imaging Corp., and vice president of World Bell Philippines, was immediately deported to his port of origin.
He flew in 9 a.m. yesterday on Japan Airlines flight 355 from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Ferdinand Penera, Bureau of Immigration’s Migration Complaint and Monitoring Group chief, said Fukuda was included in the blacklist based on a complaint by the Bureau of International Revenue that he was a delinquent taxpayer since 2004.
On record, the 50-year-old Japanese executive owed the government millions of pesos while working in the Subic Bay Freeport for more than eight years.
Penera said he would find out how Fukuda managed to go in and out of the country despite being blackballed.
Fukuda’s passport showed that he arrived at the Naia Terminal-1 on Sept. 21, 2006 and last May 29.
Earlier, 14 Filipino women were prevented from leaving for Singapore after turning out to be tourists intending to work there.
The group—the youngest at 19— were waiting at the airline check-in counter when National Bureau of Investigation agents under the Anti-Human Smuggling Task Force invited them for questioning.
During the interview, one admitted that she would work as a waitress and that somebody would fetch them at the Singapore airport upon their arrival.
While all 14 had valid Philippine passports, round-trip tickets and $500 each as show money, they failed to show any hotel accommodation or to indicate where they planned to stay.
They were supposed to board a JetStar airline flight JS 533 bound for Singapore at 12:45 p.m. Sunday.
The Naia-NBI, headed by Rosalinda Chong, has intensified its drive by profiling outbound Filipinos seeking jobs abroad right at the airline counter.
The bureau said a more rigid screening was needed because when a “tourist worker” managed to check-in, the person could easily pass the immigration counter by merely showing a passport and a plane ticket. Vito Barcelo - Manila Standard Today
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