Agents of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) have arrested a Japanese woman wanted by Tokyo authorities for alleged theft and financial fraud.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said 26-year-old Risa Yamada was caught on Jan. 9 along Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City by members of the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU).
Tansingco ordered the arrest of the fugitive upon the request of the Japanese Embassy for her to stand trial for her alleged crimes.
“She will be deported after our board of commissioners issues the order for her summary deportation.” the BI chief said.
BI-FSU chief Rendel Sy said Yamada is subject of an arrest warrant issued by the Tokyo Summary Court on Sept. 15 last year when she was indicted for the crime of theft.
Reports stated that Yamada conspired with other suspects in stealing the data from the ATM cards of their victims whom they were able to defraud by posing bank employees and police officers.
It was gathered that Yamada is already an undocumented when she was arrested as her passport was already cancelled by the Japanese government.
She now remains at the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings.