Bureau of Immigration (BI) authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) arrested a Chinese national wanted by Beijing authorities for involvement in illegal gambling.
The passenger was identified as as Huang Sen, 38, who was intercepted last Jan. 11 at the departure area of the NAIA terminal 1. He was arrested after the BI officer who processed him saw that his name had prompted a positive hit in the bureau’s Interpol derogatory system.
According to BI spokesperson Dana Sandoval, a red notice for Huang’s arrest was issued by Interpol Beijing on Dec. 4 last year at the request of the Chinese government. He was later committed to the BI detention facility in Taguig City while awaiting deportation.
BI-Interpol unit acting chief Peter de Guzman said a warrant for Huang’s arrest was issued by the public security bureau of the Luojiang district in Deyang, China on Aug. 27 last year.
De Guzman said the case stemmed from allegations that Huang conspired with other suspects in running illegal gambling sites in the Internet which catered to online customers worldwide.
The gambling syndicate reportedly employed the services of more than 70,000 people who induced more than one million Chinese customers to gamble on their websites.
It is estimated that more than 700 billion yuan, or US$95 billion, in gambling funds were betted in the gambling activities managed by the syndicate from which the latter earned no less than 2 billion yuan, or US$272 million in profits.
Chinese authorities have pinpointed Huang as the alleged head of the syndicate’s betting department.
Huang will be deported for being an undesirable alien and then placed in the BI blacklist of undesirable aliens to prevent him from re-entering the country, Sandoval said.
