BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental, Philippines – The Bureau of Immigration has taken custody of fugitive Indian national Joginder Geong who was arrested here this week on a fake Nepalese passport though it remains unclear if he will be extradited soon to his home country where he is facing charges for murder, robbery and extortion aside from being identified by authorities there as a gangster.
Police Station 6 chief Dax Santillan told DNX Geong spent only one night at their custodial center and was then brought by policeman from Camp Crame to the Warden Facility and Protection Unit of the Immigration Bureau at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City.
Dax Santillan, a police captain who heads the local unit, which took part in the joint operation that led to Geong’s arrest at a residential community in Taculing village here., said the matter is now entirely up to the BI that has jurisdiction over the case involving an alien.
Local immigration officials won’t comment on the case but sources who asked not to be named told DNX Geong had been reportedly living with his family for years in Taculing, one of the urban villages in this highly-urbanized city.
Santillan had earlier said Geong was under the Red Notice list of the International Police.
The Interpol defines the notice as “a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action. A Red Notice is not an international arrest warrant.”