Bureau of Immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Thursday barred a Chinese national from entering the country.

According to BI-NAIA, the said Chinese was previously convicted of sex crimes in the United States.

BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco identified the excluded passenger as Kang Gong, 26 years old, who was intercepted at the NAIA 3 terminal upon his arrival via a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong.

Tansingco said the Philippine Immigration Act strictly prohibits the entry of foreigners convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude, as they are likely to commit the same offense if they are allowed to enter.

Kang was thus excluded and booked on the next available flight to his port of origin, the BI chief said, adding that Gong's interception became possible after his name registered a hit in Interpol's database of convicted alien criminals.

Information obtained from Interpol's National Central Bureau in Manila disclosed that Gong was deported to China from the US on 22 October 2021.

Kang was expelled by the US government nearly seven months after a circuit court in Michigan convicted him on three counts of child sexual abuse and using computers to distribute and promote sex pornography.

He allegedly committed the crime from April to July 2000, when he received more than a hundred pornographic materials about sexually abused children and distributed them to the public.

Tansingco said they cannot allow the undesirable alien to enter the country, lest our Filipino children become his next victims.