BI deports wanted Japanese nat’l
THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) deported a Japanese national wanted by authorities in Tokyo for financial fraud.
BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco shared that Risa Yamada, 26, was deported Friday, March 17, on board a Japan Airlines flight to Narita.
Yamada was initially arrested by the BI’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) last January 9 along Roxas Boulevard 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 to steal the data from the ATM cards of their victims, whom they were able to defraud by posing as bank employees and police officers.
It was gathered that Yamada was already undocumented when she was arrested, as her passport was already canceled 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. BY JUN I. LEGASPI & HECTOR LAWAS
