MISAMIS Oriental Board Member Gerardo Sabal III has asked the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to give the provincial board a copy of the warrant of arrest against a Korean national who is an official of Verde Soko Inc., the company behind the controversial trash shipments docked in Tagoloan port.
Sabal said that he would like to have a copy of the warrant against executive Chul Soo Cho so that he could give it to the office of Governor Yevgeny Vicente Emano for possible action by the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC), since Emano also chairs the PPOC.
He added that he will ask for PPOC’s intervention if the police here fail to arrest the suspect.
Emano, meanwhile, said he would consider Board Member Sabal’s recommendation for Cho’s “immediate arrest.”
During the hearing of the provincial board’s environment committee last week, Mindanao International Container Terminal port collector, John Simon, said that Cho, who also goes with the alias as “Charles Cho,” was wanted for embezzlement and falsification of public documents in South Korea.
Simon said in the hearing that Cho is wanted for embezzlement and falsification of public documents in South Korea since 2016, according to the International Police.
In the Philippines, Cho has also been charged with violation of Republic Act 6969 or the Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990, for the transport and entry of the trash to country.