BUREAU of Immigration (BI) operatives arrested in Pampanga over the weekend a Japanese man wanted by authorities in Tokyo for theft.
In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado identified the Japanese as 28-year-old Tsukita Yuhei, who was arrested on Monday along Fields Avenue, Brgy. Balibago, Angeles City.
Viado said members of the bureau’s fugitive search unit (FSU) arrested Yuhei on the strength of a mission order which he issued at the request of the Japanese government which reported the presence of the said fugitive in the country.
“We are deporting him for being an undesirable alien and his name will be included in our blacklist which would ban him from re-entering the country,” the BI chief added.
BI-FSU chief Rendel Ryan 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.
A check of the Yuhei travel record showed that he is already overstaying as he last arrived in the Philippines on March 16, 2019 and he 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
