Operatives from the Bureau of Immigration (BI) arrested a Chinese national wanted in Beijing, China, for alleged illegal drug trafficking.

BI commissioner Atty. Joel Anthony Viado identified the fugitive as Ouyang Shixing, who was apprehended last 8 April by operatives of the BI Fugitive Search Unit inside his condominium in Parañaque City.

Viado said he issued the mission order for Ouyang’s arrest after the BI received information from the Chinese government regarding his alleged crimes in China.

Ouyang was indicted for drug trafficking under China’s criminal laws last year and is also the subject of an Interpol red alert, according to Viado.

“He will be deported for being an undesirable foreigner who has overstayed because he hasn’t left the country since his last arrival on 3 August 2023. He will be placed on a blacklist and prohibited from reentering the country,” Viado said.

The BI-Interpol unit gathered information indicating that the public security office in Fuzhou City, Jiangxi, China, issued an arrest warrant for Ouyang in November 2023.

Chinese authorities allege that on 12 May 2023, Ouyang and another suspect arranged to purchase methamphetamine from a drug dealer and then sell the narcotics to a buyer who paid them 70,000 yuan, equivalent to over $10,000 USD.

Ouyang allegedly boarded a train to Hong Kong on 2 August of the same year and fled to the Philippines with the money. He is currently being held at the BI Warden Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City, while awaiting deportation proceedings.