BI nabs South Korean wanted for telecom fraud | Inquirer News

BI nabs South Korean wanted for telecom fraud

/ 05:23 PM June 20, 2022

Façade of Bureau of Immigration in Intramuros, Manila

Bureau of Immigration in Intramuros, Manila. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/ ALEXIS CORPUZ

MANILA, Philippines — A South Korean man wanted for telecommunications fraud in his home country was arrested in Cebu, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported on Monday.

In a report to BI Commissioner Jaime Morente, the bureau’s fugitive search unit said that 42-year-old Jung Inhyeok was arrested in Brgy. Poblacion in San Fernando town on June 13.

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The Interpol’s National Central Bureau (NCB) in Manila reported that Jung was accused of committing fraud for operating a phone scam syndicate that took 65 million Korean won or around P2,762,350 from its victims.

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The crime was allegedly conducted through voice phishing, where they posed as bank officials or sellers at a call center in Thailand.

The Seoul western district court issued a warrant of arrest against Jung in April 2015, reported the Interpol NCB.

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The BI said Jung’s travel record showed that he arrived in Manila as a tourist in 2017 and has been hiding since then.

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“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.

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Morente likewise noted that the South Korean government also revoked Jung’s passport, placing him on the immigration blacklist and prohibiting him from re-entering the country.

He will be sent to the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City to await his deportation. — Xander Dave Ceballos, trainee

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