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BI set to deport 3 Americans, Taiwanese

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is poised to deport three Americans and a Taiwanese who are all wanted by authorities in their homelands for serious crimes.

     Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan presented to members of the media Tuesday the four fugitives who were identified as Stanley Reczko, a convicted pedophile and Terry Solomon and his wife Rebecca, who are both wanted in a multi-million dollar fraud and money laundering case; and Taiwanese Hsu Hui-Chin, who is wanted for fraud.

and after a fake marriage ceremony was held to fool the girl’s parents and his minor spouse.

     The victim’s parents reportedly sought the BI’s help after Reczko began harassing the girl and her family after she left him.

     As for the Solomons, the couple was also arrested Monday by joint operatives of the BI and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) at the Fraser Place condominium along Valero Street in Makati City.

     The Solomons are subjects of an arrest warrant issued by a district court in northern California where they are wanted for conspiracy to defraud investors of more than USD17 million in a mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering scheme.

     Their passports were already canceled by the U.S. government, thus they are now undocumented aliens who are subject to summary deportation.

     Hsu, who was arrested in Sta Cruz, Manila last Tuesday

is allegedly by the Criminal Investigation Bureau of Taiwan for involvement in a string of fraud cases.

     It was also gathered that the Taiwanese was jailed in Taiwan from 2001 to 2004 after being convicted for counterfeiting valuable securities.

     The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Manila also informed the BI that Hsu had other criminal records such as forging instruments and seals, embezzlement and issuing valid tickets.

     Libanan said all three will be deported to the U.S. to stand trial for their crimes, adding that he ordered the trio’s arrest at the request of their embassies in Manila which sought the BI’s help in locating and deporting the fugitives.

     He added that all four would be blacklisted and banned from re-entering the Philippines for being undesirable aliens.

     Libanan said the BI will continue to be aggressive in going after foreign fugitives hiding in the country, saying the “Philippines should not be used as a sanctuary of foreign criminals who want to evade punishment for crimes they committed in their homelands.”

     Documents obtained from BI intelligence chief Faizal Hussin showed that Reczko is a violent sex offender who was convicted in 1997 for raping and forcibly abducting a 14-year old girl in New York as a result of which he was sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Jefferson county court.

     Reczko was arrested last Monday in Dumaguete City where he had been living with a 17-year-old Filipina in what the U.S. Embassy described as “sexual, physical and verbally abusive relationship.”

     It was learned that Reczko had been living with his partner since the latter was 15 years old