BI collars S. Korean fraud suspect
THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced the arrest of another South Korean fugitive wanted by authorities in his country for telecommunications fraud.
In a report to BI Commissioner Jaime Morente, the bureau’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) identified the Korean as 42-year-old Jung Inhyeok, who was arrested last June 13 in Bgy. Poblacion, San Fernando, Cebu.
The arresting agents were armed with a warrant of deportation, which Morente issued according to a summary deportation order that the BI Board of Commissioners issued against Jung last year.
“He will be immediately sent back to Korea as he was already ordered deported for being ‘undesirable’, overstaying, and undocumented alien,” Morente said in a statement.
He added that Jung, whose passport was revoked by the South Korean government, has been placed on the immigration blacklist and banned from re-entering the country.
According to Interpol’s National Central Bureau (NCB) in Manila, the suspect has an outstanding warrant of arrest issued by Seoul Western District Court on April 16, 2015, for fraud.
He was accused of committing fraud by operating a phone scam syndicate that defrauded its victims of more than 65 million Korean won, or roughly US$50,500, through voice phishing which they perpetrated by posing as bank officials or sellers at a call center located in Thailand.
A check of his travel record revealed that Jung had been hiding in the country since October 27, 2017, when he last arrived in Manila as a tourist.
He will be committed to the BI Warden Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending his deportation.
