The head of the Philippine Immigration Bureau stated that he was subjected to "public opinion retaliation" and defamation because he refused to grant bail to the gambling POGO suspect Yang Jianxin.

Joel Anthony M. Viado, the Director of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in the Philippines, recently spoke out for the first time about the "smearing of the Bureau of Immigration," emphasizing that he has never approved any special bail requests and hinted that the recent public attacks against him mi