Harboring fugitives

There must be something in the country's air that foreign fugitives and the criminally minded find so inviting.

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In November, Indian native Sajid Akram and his Australia-born son Naveed spent 28 days mostly in Davao before returning to their home in Australia and, two weeks later, killing 15 people celebrating Jewish Hanukkah in Sydney's popular Bondi Beach.

Over the holidays in Bulacan, Bureau of Immigration agents arrested a Nepali wanted in his country on suspicion of leading an extremist group plotting to assassinate top government officials in Nepal. BI agents, meanwhile, are trying to recapture two South Koreans wanted in their country for drug smuggling and burglary, who escaped from BI detention in Muntinlupa on New Year's Day.