The Bureau of Immigration is deporting a Russian woman wanted for large-scale fraud.
Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente identified the fugitive as 36-year-old Uba Iuliia, who was arrested last Feb. 6 inside her condominium unit along Legaspi Street, Makati City by operatives from the bureau’s Fugitive Search Unit.
Morente said Iuliia was arrested at the request of Russian authorities which sought the agency’s help in locating the fugitive so she could be deported and prosecuted for her crimes.
The foreigner’s passport was already confiscated by the Russian government, thus she will be deported for being an undocumented and undesirable alien, the Immigration chief said.
In a letter to the bureau in October last year, Russian authorities said Iuliia has a standing arrest warrant issued by the Department of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs in the City of Ulyanovsky, Russia for large scale fraud with abuse of authority.
A suspected accomplice remains at large and is the object of a continuing manhunt by FSU operatives.
A check of the bureau’s travel database revealed that Iuliia had been hiding in the country since July last year when she arrived in Manila as a tourist.
Her name was already placed in the Immigration blacklist to prevent her from returning to the Philippines.