Canada deports couple wanted for swindling

A couple accused of swindling hundreds of people including many officers of the Philippine National Police and the Presidential Security Group in a pyramid scheme four years ago was deported by Canada last Sunday.

Kaye del Rosario, 42, and his wife Janice, 44, arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at around 4:20 p.m.

They were escorted on the flight by Canadian immigration officers John Martin Clarcke, Michelle O’Hara, and Jody Scott Mcphail and were turned over to the Bureau of Immigration.

Also deported with the couple were their two young sons, aged 13 and eight.

Welcoming the couple at the airport was senator-turned-lawyer Rene Saguisag, who was hired by the couple to defend them.

They are facing a large-scale estafa complaint, led by Superintendent Constante Agpaoa, the station commander of the Central Police District’s Station 6 and his wife. They are accused of swindling hundreds of people, amassing millions of pesos.

Kaye del Rosario was working as a restaurant waiter at the Holiday Inn in Toronto.

Immigration sources said Del Rosario tried to ask the Canadian government for asylum for humanitarian reasons but was turned down.

Ironically, his request only alerted Canadian authorities about their presence in the country and led to their deportation. – Rainier Allan Ronda