Immigration agents arrest British citizen wanted for fraud

February 13, 2017

Bureau of Immigration (BI) agents have arrested a British citizen who is on the top 10 list of the most wanted swindlers in the United Kingdom , the bureau said in a statement on Monday.

BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said operatives from the bureau’s fugitive search unit arrested on Friday Adam James Stagg, 30, at his home along Yellow Papua St., Don Bosco Compound, Mabalacat City, Pampanga.

Morente said Stagg, seventh in the UK ’s ten most wanted list of criminal fraudsters, will be deported as soon as the BI board of commissioners issues the order for his summary deportation.

“Like all other foreign fugitives that we have arrested, this Briton will be expelled and sent back to his country to stand trial for his crimes,” said Morente, who issued the mission order for Stagg’s arrest at the request of the British embassy.

British authorities have long suspected that Stagg had been living a luxurious lifestyle in the Philippines after engaging in the fraudulent online sale of watches from October 2013 to June 2014.

He is said to have profited by as much as £20,000 from the racket where victims were duped into paying for designer watches they never received. DMS