Filipino police took 312 Chinese on board the plane today for fraudulent appropriation of property over the phone.

Fortunato Manahan, commander of the intelligence unit of the Philippine police, said the Chinese citizens would leave Manila with five flights from China Eastern to Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province and Changchun, Jilin Province.

The group belonged to 512 foreigners arrested by police last month during a raid on a facility in the city of Pasay in urban Manila. They are accused of carrying out fraudulent activities over the phone by setting up a system to steal personal information such as usernames, passwords or information about the user's credit card types ... to deceive. island or blackmail. The victims were mostly mainland Chinese citizens.

Other suspects arrested in the raid are now detained at a police facility while waiting for deportation.

Jaime Morente, an immigration officer from the Philippines, warned foreigners not to use the country as a base for illegal activities and said more arrests would be made in the coming days.

News of the deportation came as sources from the Philippine immigration agency announced the arrest of 36 Japanese people for a telephone fraud allegedly targeted at people in Japan. Based on information from the Japanese investigation agency, the immigration agency arrested suspects at a hotel in Manila on the afternoon of November 13 and transferred them to detention. This group is believed to have been active at multiple locations in the Philippines.