Manila - A German man convicted of raping a 5-year-old girl in his country has been arrested in the Philippines, a senior immigration official said Wednesday.

Immigration bureau chief Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said Holger Arvid Ingo Becker, 47, was arrested in his rented house in Cavite City, 25 kilometres south of Manila, earlier in the month.

Libanan said Becker, who is the subject of an international warrant, would be deported immediately back to Germany.

Becker has been hiding in the Philippines since he fled Germany in January 2008. A Hamburg court found him guilty in absentia in February of this year, for the crime committed in 2006.

Libanan said Becker would be placed on the immigration bureau's blacklist and not be allowed to return to the Philippines.