Israeli to appeal, ask BID to reverse deportation order
Nitz Arancon1 min read
By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent
AN Israeli in the city who was ordered arrested and deported has assailed the immigration bureau’s order for his arrest and deportation even as he announced that he would appeal his case.
The foreigner, Reuven Baranovitch, called the eight-page resolution of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) “bias.”
Baranovitch said he would file a motion for reconsideration, and appeal to the BID to reverse its ruling.
The Israeli, chairman of the Sky Limit Lending Institution, was ordered arrested and deported by the BID in a resolution issued on Nov. 26, 2015, based on a “letter of referral” sent by city prosecutor Fidel Macauyag.
Macauyag, in his letter, alleged that Baranovitch has filed over 900 mostly estafa cases against Filipinos who borrowed from his firm, and that the foreigner allegedly pressed “harassment” complaints against prosecutors and judges who trashed his complaints.
Baranovitch however said it was the company, and not him, who filed the complaints.
He denied that he press over 900 cases against Filipinos, and pointed out that the firm filed only around 200 complaints against borrowers.
Baranovitch also denied Macauyag’s claim that he was slapped with at least seven criminal cases in the city. He said he was facing only one case for slight physical injuries before the 1st branch of the Municipal Trial Court here.
The case, he said, was filed because he defended his Filipino wife against their neighbor.