Subic Bay Freeport — Six undocumented Chinese nationals were arrested at Trillo Bay Villas in this Freeport last Thursday.

According to the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, the six were arrested after the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and the agency implemented mission orders to arrest the suspects inside Kim’s Apartment, a rented apartment inside the villa.

The six Chinese nationals were identified as Yongfeng Huang, Guo Jun, Hong Xiaojun, Bai Shiping, Guo Shiquan, and Gan Ning. The six were in violation of Rule 9, Section 1 of SBM-2015-010 for being undocumented.

Five of the six Chinese did not present a passport during the arrest, with Huang having the only one with a passport. The BI said that the arrested suspects were apprised of their constitutional rights under RA 7438 in the language they can fully understand and in a manner that they could fully comprehend.

The six were taken to the BI’s head office in Intramuros, Manila where they will be detained and processed. 

According to officer-in-charge of the Office of the Deputy Administrator for Legal Affairs and Manager of the Labor Department Atty. Melvin Varias, the six were part of the 57 Chinese nationals who used to worked at The Teleempire Incorporated and were documented during their employment at the said accredited back office solutions provider in Subic Bay Freeport.

Of the 57 Chinese nationals who worked there, six of them went back to their home country, while 51 were unaccounted. Of the 51 unaccounted, 20 were arrested during a raid in Kalayaan at a house that was made into an illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator.

The recently arrested six were part of the 51 unaccounted employees of Teleempire. 

Atty. Varias said that the agency and the BI are working hand-in-hand to ensure that all the undocumented Chinese nationals who worked at the said company will be documented and accounted for.