Senate seeks extradition on Fil-Chinese couple
By Angie M. Rosales 06/14/2011Extradition of a Filipino-Chinese couple allegedly behind the smuggling of black corals and other marine resources was sought by Senate probers yesterday after they were found to have already fled the country a day before they were put into the immigration’s watchlist order.
At the same time, senators conducting the investigation on the poaching of the corals reefs, the damage of which was said to be twice as big as Manila, are also eyeing of moving for the imposition of sanctions against two Zamboanga City prosecutors for supposedly sitting on the couple’s case involving similar offenses for five years now.
At the resumption of the hearing by the Senate committee on environment and natural resources chaired by Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri, lawmakers were told by Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Jose Balajadia that Li Yu Ming, alias Joe Pring, and his wife Olivia Li could no longer be served their warrant of arrest since they have fled the country in the afternoon of June 7 and are believed to be either in Hong Kong or mainland China..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110614nat1.html
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