4 Mautes bound for Malaysia held at NAIA
The Bureau of Immigration at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 yesterday prevented four suspected members of the Maute group from leaving the country for Malaysia on a Cebu Pacific flight. File
MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Immigration (BI) at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 yesterday prevented four suspected members of the Maute group from leaving the country for Malaysia on a Cebu Pacific flight.
Marc Red Marinas, BI airport operations chief, identified the departing passengers as Abdulrahman Maute, Al Nizar Maute, Ashary Maute and Yasser Maute.
Immigration records show the four suspects have derogatory records in the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP).
They were scheduled to board Cebu Pacific flight 5J 499 bound for Malaysia at 2:45 p.m. yesterday.
The four Maute brothers are now undergoing interrogation and investigation by BI and ISAFP officers.
Three other relatives – Abdulchahar Maute, Cota and Acmali Mawiyag – were also held at the airport but later allowed to leave.
The BI and the ISAFP officials have cleared another Saudi Arabia-bound Maute identified as Aziz Maute after authorities found out that he is an overseas Filipino worker in Riyadh and employed as a cleaner and is not involved in terrorist activities in Marawi.
Aziz Maute was scheduled to board Philippine Airlines flight PR 654 bound for Riyadh at noon.
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