Chinese wanted for fraud back home caught in Mactan

Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers at the international airport in Mactan, Cebu, recently intercepted a Chinese woman wanted for fraud in China.

In a report to Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente, BI port operations division chief Marc Red Mariñas said 44-year-old Fan Wenxin was apprehended last June 10 upon her arrival aboard a Malaysian Airlines flight from Singapore.

Fan, who is a naturalized citizen of Caribbean St. Kitts and Nevis, also reportedly presented a Vietnamese passport under the assumed name of Troung An Lan she was using hide her real identity.

Mariñas said the woman was barred from entering the country and issued an exclusion order for being an undesirable alien.

“She also failed to present an onward return ticket, which is required of all foreign tourists who visit the country,” he added.

Fan’s apprehension was relayed to the Chinese consulate in Cebu which issued her a travel document so she can be sent back to China to stand trial.

A representative from China’s Interpol bureau and two Chinese policemen escorted Fan on her Xiamen Airlines flight to Fuzhou, China last June 13.

It was learned that Fan was arrested when she presented herself for inspection at the immigration arrival counter.

The Interpol database showed that she is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the municipal public security bureau in the Daqing, Heilongjiang, China where she was indicted for fraud.

Chinese prosecutors said Fan profited from the “illegal transfer of land use rights” which is an offense punishable by seven years imprisonment.