(UPDATE) THE Philippines said Wednesday it had deported 165 Chinese it accused of working in an online scam center based in the north of the country.
THE Philippines said Wednesday it had deported 165 Chinese it accused of working in an online scam center based in the north of the country.The group was flown to Shanghai on Tuesday and forever barred from returning to the Philippines, the Immigration Bureau said in a statement.The deportees were among hundreds of employees, Filipino and foreign, rounded up by an anti-crime government task force in a raid of an office compound in the northern municipality of Bamban on March 14.
After the raid, the authorities said some of the workers were forced into it and 'were controlled by having their passports confiscated so they were unable to leave.'The raid occurred following a tip-off from one of the Vietnamese workers who sought police help after he escaped from the compound.Across Southeast Asia, scam centers have mushroomed, with crime syndicates luring, kidnapping or coercing workers into predatory online activity.
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