Five Japanese nationals, reportedly wanted in their country for fraud and theft activities mostly targeting the elderly, were deported by the Bureau of Immigration on Tuesday (April 7).

The five suspects were in handcuffs when they boarded a Japan Airlines flight bound for Tokyo on Tuesday morning at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3.

They were identified as Osawa Ayumi, 33; Iwamoto Miyako, 34; Noboyuki Arima, 45; Yuya Yano, 34, Iwamato Miyako, 34 and Norichika Harada, 48.

All five belong to a group of Japanese gang whose members are allegedly invovled in various crimes such as fraud and theft.

They were arrested by the Bureau of Immigration’s Fugitive Search Unit in Bulacan and Quezon.

Local authorities said they belong to a breakaway faction of a notorious group of Japan-based criminal syndicate known as the “JP Dragon.”

The “JP Dragon” has rivaled the Yakuza in terms of criminal activities.

According to BI Japanese anti-organized crime authorities have identified the alleged fugitives as engaged in large-scale scam operations targeting senior citizens in Japan.

Copies of warrants of arrest for the deported fugitives were presented to the BI before they were flown back to their country.

Among the crimes allegedly committed by the five suspected criminal were fraud, theft and bank scams.

Their names have been included in the BI’s blacklist. Theyare forever barred from re-entering the Philippines.