00:00Five Chinese nationals and Chinese-Filipino translators were arrested
00:06for illegally driving on a dredging ship.
00:10Jun Veneracion was arrested.
00:17The Philippine Coast Guard searched the rooms and every corner of the Sanku-Uno motor vessel.
00:23The K-9 unit also deployed to make sure that there was no smuggling inside.
00:27The Coast Guard's operation will continue
00:29after it was discovered yesterday that six vehicles of the MV Sanku-Uno were hidden inside.
00:35This Sanku-Uno is on its way to Mindoro,
00:38a dredging ship that is under the control of the Philippine Coast Guard.
00:43The Philippine Coast Guard discovered that there are passengers
00:48who were not declared in the ship's manifesto.
00:50Five Chinese nationals and one Filipino-Chinese.
00:54The ship is obligated to declare everyone in the Master's Declaration of Safe Departure or MDSD.
01:00They have an intention to deceive.
01:02One, maybe there is an immigration law that is violating us.
01:06Two, the MDSD is a public document.
01:09So, it is a falsification of a public document.
01:12The five Chinese nationals and Chinese-Filipino translators were arrested and charged.
01:17Based on the initial investigation of the Coast Guard,
01:20the Chinese are holding a tourist visa.
01:23I don't know where they came from.
01:25They were sent here because no one knows how to operate dredging equipment here.
01:33Tourist visa?
01:34They are not working.
01:37They will just accompany us. They will just teach us.
01:39Aside from the six, the Coast Guard is also studying the possible responsibilities of the captain,
01:44another official of the ship, and the ship management.
01:47The captain said that he was told by the ship management that they have Chinese nationals
01:52who are worried about their operation.
01:54Why is it not in the manifesto?
01:56I don't know, sir. I don't know. I can't answer that, sir.
02:00As a ship captain, you should know all of this.
02:03No, not all of it.
02:06Because there is a ship owner representative.
02:09I can't answer that. I really don't know.
02:11You have a signature at the end.
02:13He has a signature.
02:14He has a signature. We received it, captain.
02:17And the second mate.
02:19The six will be brought to the detention facility of the Coast Guard in Taguig.
02:22For GMA Integrated News, I'm Jun Veneracion, for 24 Hours.
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