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MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is set to deport a Ghanian national suspected to be the mastermind of a West African syndicate that hacks automated teller machines (ATMs) in the Philippines.
In a statement, Immigration Intelligence Division Chief Fortunato Manahan Jr. said Victor Patrick, 34, was recently arrested in a joint operation conducted by members of the BI and the Armed Forces of the Philippines at the parking lot of a mall in Bicutan.
The bureau said Patrick was one of the prime suspects involved in an ATM hacking syndicate.
“He has been seen to frequent several big banks in Barangay Moonwalk in Parañaque,” Manahan said.
Patrick arrived in the country on April 20, 2019, as a tourist and applied for a missionary visa as petitioned by a Cebu-based company, which turned out to be nonexistent
—TINA G. SANTOS
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