BI alerts personnel on HDO vs Lee, 4 others in housing scam

MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has alerted its personnel in seaports and airports to prevent Globe Asiatique Realty Holdings owner Delfin Lee and four others tagged in a housing scam from leaving the country.

BI spokesperson Ma. Antonette Bucasas-Mangrobang said Lee, his son Dexter, Globe Asiatique officers Christina Sagun and Cristina Salagan, and Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund) official Alex Alvarez would not be allowed to go abroad.

Mangrobang said this is in compliance with the hold departure order (HDO) issued by Judge Amifaith Fider-Reyes of the Pampanga Regional Trial Court Branch 43. 

The HDO against the five respondents were in connection with the syndicated estafa charges filed against them on the allegedly anomalous loans granted by Pag-IBIG Fund to purported ghost borrowers who bought homes in Globe Asiatique’s Xevera housing project in Mabalacat City, Pampanga.