THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced the arrest of a Chinese man wanted by authorities in Beijing for involvement in financial fraud.
In a report to Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco, the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU) identified the captured fugitive as 52-year-old Qiu Jiajian, who was arrested on April 15 along Ongpin Street, Binondo, Manila.
The FSU agents were armed with a mission order from Tansingco who issued the same at the request of the Chinese government.
Qiu was later committed to the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City where he will remain pending deportation proceedings.
BI-FSU acting chief Rendel Ryan Sy disclosed that Qiu was issued an arrest warrant by the Licheng sub-bureau of the public security bureau in Quanzhou, China.
Chinese prosecutors alleged that Qiu issued falsified special value-added tax (VAT) invoices in violation of China’s criminal code.
He allegedly used the name of an import-export trading firm in Quanzhou and other shell companies to falsely issue over 200 special VAT invoices for non-existent goods valued at more than 26 million yuan, or roughly US$3.5 million, thus defrauding the Chinese government of tax revenues.
Sy said that aside from being a fugitive from justice, Qiu will also be deported for being an overstaying and undocumented alien as his Chinese passport already expired on Sept. 8 last year. He will also be blacklisted and banned from re-entering the Philippines.
