THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) deported a Japanese national wanted in authorities in Tokyo for financial fraud.
BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco shared that Risa Yamada, 26, was deported morning of March 17 on board a Japan Airlines flight to Narita.
Yamada was initially arrested by the BI’s fugitive search unit last January 9 along Roxas Blvd. in Pasay City after being tagged as a fugitive from justice by her government
She is reportedly the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the Tokyo Summary Court on Sept. 15, 2022 where she was indicted for the crime of theft.
Reports state 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.
As a consequence of her deportation, her name has been included in the BI’s blacklist, banning her from re-entering the Philippines.
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