German nat’l wanted for murder nabbed
THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced the arrest of a German national wanted by authorities in Berlin for murder.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the 42-year-old foreigner was arrested last Jan. 31 at his residence in Upper Poblacion, Tuba, Benguet, by operatives from the BI’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) in coordination with Naval Intelligence Security Group Northern Luzon and Tuba Municipal Police Station (MPS).
Tansingco said the arresting agents were armed with a warrant which he issued under a deportation order that the BI board of commissioners issued against the fugitive.
“We will thus send him back to Berlin as soon as the bureau secures the required clearances for his deportation from the court and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI),” the BI chief added.
He further said that the suspect is already banned from re-entering the country due to his inclusion in the immigration blacklist of undesirable aliens.
According to BI-FSU acting chief Rendel Ryan Sy, the suspect is the subject of an arrest warrant by the Braunschweig county court in Germany on July 14, 2014.
He was accused of allegedly murdering his cousin by severing the victim’s body with a samurai sword before robbing the latter’s home of valuable items and fleeing the scene.
“German authorities later learned that he had fled to the Philippines even before the warrant was issued as BI records show he last arrived in the country on July 12, 2014 and did not leave since then,” Sy said.
The alien is presently detained at the BI Warden Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City, while awaiting deportation. BY JUN I. LEGASPI & HECTOR LAWAS
