The Bureau of Immigration (BI) successfully deported a Japanese man arrested earlier this year for being a fugitive in his home country.
The fugitive, identified as Sasaki Yohei, 36, was arrested last October 1 along Mercury Street in Bahay Toro, Quezon City.
He boarded a Japan Airlines flight bound for Tokyo morning of December 9, 2024.
The BI ordered his deportation after receiving information from the Japanese government of his crimes.
According to Japanese authorities, Yohei has an active warrant of arrest issued by the Omiya summary court in Saitama, Japan where he was charged for defrauding an elderly victim in a nursing home where he worked as a staff member.
He allegedly enticed the victim to invest more than 3 million yen in a fake contract-related transaction.
Likewise, the Japanese man is an alleged member of a Cambodia-based telecom fraud syndicate engaged in kidnapping, illegal detention, extortion, and fraud.
It was learned that several high-ranking members of the syndicate were already arrested in previous operations by the BI-FSU headed by Rendel Sy.
According to BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado, as a consequence of his deportation, his name was included in the BI’s blacklist, effectively barring him from re-entering the country.
“His deportation shows our strong stance against illegal aliens attempting to stay in the Philippines to evade arrest in their home countries,” said Viado. “Let me reiterate, fugitives and other such foreign criminals have no place in our country,” he added.
