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JAPANESE WANTED FOR THEFT ARRESTED IN PAMPANGA

By: Victor Baldemor Ruiz

Bureau of Immigration (BI) operatives arrested in Pampanga over the weekend a Japanese man wanted by authorities in Tokyo for theft.

The Japanese was identified as 28-year-old Tsukita Yuhei, who was arrested on Monday along Fields Avenue, Brgy. Balibago, Angeles City.

Members of the bureau’s fugitive search unit (FSU) under Rendel Ryan Sy arrested Yuhei on the strength of a mission order which the BI issued at the request of the Japanese government which reported the presence of the said fugitive in the country.


The BI is deporting him for being an undesirable alien and his name will be included in the BI blacklist which would ban him from re-entering the country.

BI-FSU chief Sy disclosed that a warrant for Yuhei’s arrest was issued by a Tokyo summary court on Oct. 27, 2022 after he was charged with theft in violating of Article 235 of Japan’s penal code.

Japanese authorities alleged that Yuhei and his accomplice stole over eight pieces of ATM cards by impersonating law enforcers in order to deceive their victims in surrendering their cards under the pretext of police investigation.

Over 724,000 yen worth of cash, or more than US$4,600, were allegedly stolen by the suspects through unauthorized withdrawals from the said stolen cards.


Yuhei’s travel records showed that he is already overstaying as he last arrived in the Philippines on March 16, 2019 and never left since then.

Yuhei was committed to the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City where he will remain while undergoing deportation.

Tags: Bureau of Immigration (BI)

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