MANILA, Philippines — A Kyrgyzstani woman linked to a drug syndicate in Africa was arrested in Makati City, the Bureau of Immigration said Wednesday.
Anara Ruslanova, 29, is believed to be overstaying in the Philippines for four years before she was nabbed by authorities in a residential village in Makati last July 23.
Following the arrest, Ruslanova was later brought to the BI custodial facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City where she will remain in custody while awaiting deportation.
“She will remain in the BI’s facility until the implementation of her deportation,” Tansingco said.
Operatives alleged that Ruslanova had connections to members of a West African syndicate that the BI and the National Bureau of Investigation arrested at a bar in Makati last June 20, 2022.
The BI filed a deportation case against Ruslanova for being an undesirable and overstaying alien.
On November 21, 2023, the BI board of commissioners ordered her deportation and added her to the immigration blacklist, prohibiting her from re-entering the Philippines.
Records indicate that the Kyrgyzstani woman last arrived in the country on October 4, 2018, and has not left since, nor has she applied for any visa to extend her stay legally.
