Immigration agents nab Taiwanese fugitive in Pasay City

The Bureau of Immigration nabs Taiwanese fugitive Shan Yu-Hsuan in Pasay City on November 17, 2023. Shan is wanted in Taiwan for telecommunications fraud. Photo from BI

MANILA, Philippines — Immigration agents have arrested a Taiwanese wanted in his country for telecommunications fraud.

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported on Wednesday that Shan Yu-Hsuan was nabbed by its Fugitive Search Unit last Friday, Nov. 17, in Pasay City.

According to the BI, the Taiwanese government made a request and sought Shan’s deportation so he could undergo trial for his crime. BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco issued a corresponding mission order to capture the foreigner, who was also found to be overstaying in the Philippines.

Citing information from Taiwan authorities, the BI said Ciaotou District Court in Kaohsiung issued a warrant for Shan’s arrest on March 25, 2019, over charges that he supervised a call center in Taiwan where his sales agents engaged in phishing to dupe online customers.

“He will be deported after our BI Board of Commissioners issues the order for his summary deportation,” Tansingco said in a statement.

“He will also be included in our blacklist of undesirable aliens to prevent him from re-entering the country,” he added.

Shan has since been detained at the BI’s Warden Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City, pending the completion of deportation proceedings against him.

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