Ogawa, according to Immigration Intelligence Chief Victor Boco, is facing tax evasion charges for failure to settle 254.97 million yen.
The foreigner entered the country on November 11, by presenting a fake passport under a name of Hideki Tatsumi.
Online Japanese paper reports revealed that the Japanese was a former Osaka prefectural assemblyman.
Ogawa is now detained at the Immigration jail in Bicutan, Taguig pending deportation proceedings.
Meanwhile, the bureau barred 782 individuals mostly consist of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from leaving the country from January to October this year for having spurious travel documents.
Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said the passengers were offloaded by immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) and other ports from January to October 31.
He said 637 Filipinos, mostly OFWs, accounted for the bulk of the offloaded passengers while the rest were foreigners who had defective travel papers or whose names are in the immigration hold order list.
Naia statistics showed that Filipino workers were bound for various foreign destinations such as Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, and other Middle East countries.
The list also included 79 government workers, 64 overstaying foreigners, and 92 persons whose names appeared in the immigration hold departure list. (FP/Sunnex)
