CITY OF SAN FERNANDO The Bureau of Immigration (BI) recently arrested three South Korean fugitives who were hiding in Pampanga.
BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the aliens were arrested on various dates in February.
The operations were conducted by the BI’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) in Pampanga.
On February 4, FSU agents arrested 44-year-old Kim Jingsuk in Barangay Anonas, Angeles City.
Kim is allegedly sought by a District Court in Chuncheon, South Korea for embezzling 367 million Korean Won, or roughly US$300,000 from his employer by illegally selling 1,300 tons of imported coal from Russia.
Also arrested on the same date in Angeles City is Park Geon Jin, 34.
Park is wanted in Seoul Seobu District Court in South Korea for being tagged as a member of a voice phishing organization.
He has reportedly committed over 7.65 million Korean Won fraud damages since their operation in 2018.
On February 8, FSU operatives arrested in Angeles City 40-year-old Park Kyoungtae.
He is wanted in Busan for illegally operating a gambling website since 2020 and generating revenues through online bets.
Aside from the three South Korean arrested in Pampanga, FSU agents also nabbed 39-year-old Chun Junghoon in Pasig City
Chun was issued an arrest warrant by the Busan District Court in January 2020 after being found to work as a telemarketer for a telecom fraud syndicate that defrauded his victims of more than three-million Korean Won or nearly US$3,000 through voice phishing.
Tansingco said all four South Koreans will be deported for being undesirable and undocumented aliens.
He added that the foreigners' passports were already revoked by their government.
“They will also be placed in our blacklist, thus banning them from re-entering the country,” he said.
All four aliens are now detained at the BI Warden Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig pending deportation.
“We are in the midst of an intensified campaign to flush out these wanted foreigners, who are using the country as a refuge to elude arrest and prosecution for crimes they committed in their homeland,” Tansingco said.