Bureau of Immigration (BI) agents have arrested a Japanese national wanted by authorities in Tokyo for alleged theft and financial fraud.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco identified the Japanese fugitive as Risa Yamada, 26, who was apprehended in Pasay City by operatives from the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU).
Tansingco said he issued the order for Yamada’s arrest at the request of Japanese authorities in Manila which sought her deportation to Japan so she could be prosecuted for her alleged crimes.
“She will be deported after our board of commissioners issued the order for her summary deportation. She will then be deported and perpetually banned from re-entering the country for being an undesirable alien,” the BI chief said.
According to BI-FSU chief Rendel Sy, Yamada was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the Tokyo Summary Court on Sept. 15, 2022 where she was indicted for the crime of theft.
Reports stated that Yamada conspired with her cohorts in stealing the data from the ATM cards of their victims whom they were able to defraud by posing as bank employees and police officers.
It was gathered that Yamada was already an undocumented alien when she was arrested as her passport had been cancelled by the Japanese government.
She is detained at the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings.