MANILA – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Tuesday reported the arrest of a German national wanted by authorities in Berlin for murder.
Commissioner Norman Tansingco said Rilling Kenneth Napo, 42, was arrested at his residence at Upper Poblacion in Tuba town, Benguet province by operatives of the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU) in coordination with Naval Intelligence Security Group Northern Luzon and the Tuba Municipal Police Station last Jan. 31.
Napo has a standing deportation order issued by the BI board of commissioners.
“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,” he said in a statement.
Tansingco added that the foreigner is already banned from re-entering the country due to his inclusion in the immigration blacklist of undesirable aliens.
BI-FSU acting chief, Rendel Ryan Sy, said Napo is the subject of an arrest warrant by the Braunschweig county court in Germany on July 14, 2014.
He was accused of murdering his cousin by severing the victim’s body with a samurai sword before robbing his 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,” the BI official said.
The foreign national is presently detained at the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City while awaiting deportation. (PNA)
