A group of 312 Chinese nationals who were arrested in the Philippines last month in connection with telecommunications fraud were deported on Thursday.
\nThey were among 512 foreigners arrested on October 9 during a raid on an illegal business process outsourcing office in Pasay city in Metro Manila, the bureau said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The office was allegedly conducting telephone scamming operations, using phishing techniques to defraud or extort their victims, mostly Chinese nationals from the mainland.
\nThe other workers arrested in the raid were from Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and Indonesia.
\nThe Chinese nationals would be leaving Manila via five chartered China Eastern flights to Shijiazhuang, in Hebei province, and Changchun, in Jilin province, said Fortunato Manahan Jnr, chief of the bureau\u2019s intelligence unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deported Chinese nationals left Manila via five chartered China Eastern flights.
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The rest of the arrested individuals were being held at a police facility pending their deportation, Manahan added.
Immigration chief Commissioner Jaime Morente warned foreigners against using the country as a base for their illegal activities.
\u201cLet this serve as a warning to aliens planning to use the country as a base for their illegal operations,\u201d he said. \u201cExpect more arrests in the coming days.\u201d
News of the deportations came as Philippine immigration sources announced the arrest of 36 Japanese over an alleged phone scam targeting people in Japan.
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Based on information from Japanese investigative authorities, the immigration bureau detained the men at a hotel in Manila on Wednesday afternoon and transferred them to detention facilities, the sources said.
The group is believed to have operated from multiple locations in the Philippines, the sources said.
Four Japanese suspected of involvement in the phone scam were arrested by Tokyo police earlier after returning to Japan, according to Japanese investigative sources.
In a separate case, Japanese police arrested 15 Japanese earlier this year for alleged involvement in a phone scam targeting people across Japan that was operated out of a rented luxury house in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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