More than half of the 1,316 undocumented Chinese workers has apparently evaded arrest when operatives from the Philippines’ Bureau of Immigration (BI) swooped down on Jack Lam’s Fontana Leisure Parks and Casino in Clark, Pampanga in November 2016.

This was the revelation of no-less than Philippines Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II during Monday’s Senate Blue-Ribbon Committee hearing on the bribery scandal involving BI officials.

GMA News Online reported that Aguirre’s claim was in contrast to the statement of Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente, who said that “All those arrested were… on site.”

“There were at least 800 undocumented Chinese workers have evaded the arrest. The coffee shops, McDonalds, and hotel in Clark are teeming with undocumented Chinese workers. It was during the early hours of the raid when these workers escaped from being arrested,” Aguirre said in Filipino.