{"id":237507,"date":"2019-11-15T22:53:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T03:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=237507"},"modified":"2019-11-15T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T03:53:55","slug":"bi-arrests-36-japanese-in-telco-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/15\/bi-arrests-36-japanese-in-telco-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"BI arrests 36 Japanese in telco scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_232415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232415\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-232415\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n-768x741.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said they are only after Nobuki Oshita, 20, and Yusuke Kiya, 33, both have standing arrest warrants for theft in Japan but subsequently arrested 34 others. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialbureauofimmigration\/photos\/a.149788088493240\/1024835857655121\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialbureauofimmigration\/\">Bureau of Immigration, Republic of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Friday reported the arrest of 36 Japanese nationals involved in telecommunications scam in a hotel in Makati City.<\/p>\n<p>BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said they are only after Nobuki Oshita, 20, and Yusuke Kiya, 33, both have standing arrest warrants for theft in Japan but subsequently arrested 34 others.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested on Wednesday after the BI chief issued a mission order.<\/p>\n<p>Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) head Bobby Raquepo said the other Japanese nationals who were caught engaged in voice phishing operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon verification with the Japanese police, it was found out that all 36 are members of an organized crime group involved in telecom fraud and extortion,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The group has reportedly victimized at least 1,393 Japanese nationals, with an estimated cost of damages amounting to 2 billion yen.<\/p>\n<p>Morente assured the public that they will continue to strengthen their partnership with foreign counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The presence of these criminals in the country is a risk to public security. We will keep our strong ties with our partners until the last foreign fugitive is hunted, deported, and blacklisted,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The arrested foreigners are temporarily detained at the BI detention facility in Bicutan, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Friday reported the arrest of 36 Japanese nationals involved in telecommunications scam in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":232415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237508,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237507\/revisions\/237508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}