THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced the arrest of a Kyrgystani woman who was ordered deported by the agency for overstaying and her alleged involvement in illegal drugs.
In a report to Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco, the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU) identified the alien as Anara Ruslanova, 29, who was arrested in a residential village in Makati City last July 23.
The unit’s operatives were armed with a mission order from Tansingco who issued the same after the bureau received a tip from informants that the woman was staying in the said place.
Ruslanova was later committed to the BI custodial facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City where she will remain while awaiting deportation.
Operatives believed that Ruslanova had links to members of a West African syndicate who were arrested by the BI and the National Bureau of Investigation (BI) in a bar in Makati on June 20, 2022.
Ruslanova was reportedly investigated by the NBI regarding her knowledge of the activities of the West African syndicate, particularly its illegal drug trading activities in the country.
At the same time, Ruslanova was slapped with a deportation case by the BI for being an undesirable and overstaying alien.
On Nov. 21, 2023, the BI board of commissioners ordered Ruslanova’s deportation and her inclusion in the immigration blacklist, which banned her from re-entering the Philippines.
Records showed that the Kyrgystani woman last arrived in the country on Oct. 4, 2018 and has not departed since then. She had not applied for any type of visa to prolong her stay in the country legally.
Tansingco, meanwhile, hailed the arrest whom he described as an undesirable alien. She will remain in the BI’s facility until the implementation of her deportation.
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