BI to deport South Korean fugitive

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is set to deport a South Korean fugitive wanted by authorities in Seoul for engaging in telecommunications fraud. Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said Byun Jong-hyun, 40, who was arrested in Angeles City by agents from the immigration’s fugitive search unit last week, will be deported immediately. An order for his summary deportation was already issued by the immigration board of commissioners in September. Byun was already placed in the immigration blacklist and banned from reentering the Philippines for being an undesirable alien, Tansingco said. —Tina G. Santos