JOINT elements from the National Bureau of Immigration (NBI) under Director Jimmy Santiago and the Bureau of Immigration (BI) arrested a Chinese woman believed to be misrepresenting herself as a Filipino.
Arrested last July 13 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 was Wang Xiujun, 43, who is said to have been using the alias Cassia Palma Poliquit.
Prior to this, her travels have been monitored after the NBI informed the BI of Wang’s suspicious identity.
Santiago said that an NBI dactyloscopy cross examination of records revealed that Poliquit had the exact same fingerprint records as Wang, confirming that they are indeed the same person.
Wang arrived on board an AirAsia flight to Manila from Kuala Lumpur and was immediately arrested by the BI border control and intelligence unit (BCIU) officers and then immediately booked and placed in the BI warden’s facility, pending deportation proceedings.
According to information gathered by the BI’s intelligence division headed by Fortunato ‘Jun’ Manahan, Jr., Wang is involved in businesses selling and distributing electric vehicles in Metro Manila, all the while using a fraudulently-acquired Filipino identity.
She is said to have a Philippine passport and a birth certificate which was acquired via late registration despite being a Chinese national holding an investor’s visa, Manahan added.
BI spokesperson Dana Sandoval said the BI is thanking the NBI under Santiago for its swift action and coordination that led to arrest of the subject.
