THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported the arrest of a Japanese fugitive wanted by authorities in Tokyo for allegedly swindling a compatriot almost three million yen by means of voice phishing.
In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado identified the Japanese as 39-year-old Yokota Tetsuya who was arrested on Jan. 2 along Ongpin Street, Binondo, Manila by operatives from the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU).
Viado said he issued a mission order for Tetsuya’s at the request of the Japanese government which informed the BI about the fugitive’s presence in the country.
“He will be deported after our board of commissioners has issued the order for his summary deportation. He will be placed in our immigration blacklist and perpetually banned from re-entering the Philippines for being an undesirable alien,” Viado added.
According to BI-FSU chief Rendel Ryan Sy, Tetsuya is subject of an outstanding arrest warrant issued by a summary court in Omiya, Japan on May 31 last year.
Authorities alleged that Tetsuya and his accomplices made a fraudulent phone call to their victim and falsely informed the latter that transferring the right to enter a nursing home is a crime.
As a result, they were able to deceive the victim who was enticed to give them 2.75 million yen, or more than US$17,000, in cash via postal mail.
Tetsuya is currently detained at the BI detention facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings.
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