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) headed by Rendel Sy 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 pursuant to a summary deportation order that the BI board of commissioners issued against Jung last year.
“He will thus be immediately sent back to Korea as he was already ordered deported for being an 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He added that Jung, whose passport was revoked by the South Korean government, has been placed in the immigration blacklist and banned from re-entering the country.
According to the Interpol’s national central bureau (NCB) in Manila, Jung has an outstanding warrant of arrest issued by Seoul western district court on April 16, 2015 for Fraud.
He was accused of committing fraud for 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 hidden in the country since Oct. 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. (TSJ)
