German fugitive wanted for murder nabbed in Benguet

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MANILA, Philippines — A German fugitive wanted in his home country for murder was arrested late last month in Benguet, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced on Monday.

Rilling Kenneth Napo, 42, was arrested on January 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.

“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,” BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said in a statement.

Tansingco added that Napo is already banned from re-entering the country as he is in the immigration blacklist of undesirable aliens.

According BI-FSU acting chief Rendel Ryan Sy, Napo is subject of an arrest warrant by the Braunschweig county court in Germany in July 2014 for supposedly murdering his cousin by severing the latter’s body with a sword, robbing his home of valuable items, then 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 in the same statement.

Napo is currently detained at the BI facility in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City while awaiting for deportation.  (Mae Anne F. Bilolo, INQUIRER.net intern)

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