DAVAO CITY—The National Bureau of Investigation here filed 44 counts of civil registry violations against four persons in Santa Cruz town, Davao del Sur, including its civil registrar, for allegedly issuing birth certificates to Chinese nationals, many of whom were found involved in the offshore gaming scandals.
The Philippine Information Agency said Geraldo de Luna, special investigator III of the NBI South Mindanao Regional Office said cases of violation to civil registry status, falsification of public documents and graft and corruption were filed against Mario Tizon, the local civil registrar of the town, and his clerks who received and processed the documents.
He said they also filed a case for falsification of public documents against a Chinese respondent, who the NBI arrested after it was tipped off by the Davao office of the Department of Foreign Affairs. De Luna said initial investigation found 56 birth certificates with Chinese-sounding family names that dated back to issuances from 2018. He said 20 birth certificates were discovered in 2019, and 24 birth certificates in 2021.
He said they are studying what cases they will file against the middle men who facilitated the processing of the birth certficates.
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