BI nabs South Korean national for illegal drugs
THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) arrested a South Korean national for trading illegal drugs.
In a report to Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco, the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU) said Park Yong, 43, was arrested last Thursday in Angeles City, Pampanga.
“He will thus be deported immediately as soon as the BI secures the necessary clearances for his departure.
He has also been placed in the immigration blacklist to prevent him from re-entering the country,” said BI-FSU chief Rendel Ryan Sy.
Park will remain in BI cell until his deportation, according to Say.
Information obtained from the Interpol team of the BI’s border control and intelligence unit (BCIU) revealed that Park was issued an arrest warrant by the Suwon district court in Korea in 2023.
An Interpol red notice was issued against Park for violating Korea’s narcotics control act.
Korean authorities alleged that in July 2016 Park posted on the Internet an advertisement inviting the public to buy methamphetamine drugs from him.
After receiving payment from buyers, the latter were instructed to pick up the illegal drugs from discreet locations that were photographed and where the illegal drugs were hidden.
Park is already an overstaying alien as BI records show that he last arrived in the Philippines last Sept. 15, 2019 and has not departed since then.
