4 more Koreans held in Clark for online gaming

ANGELES CITY—A day after the arrest of four Korean men for alleged illegal online gambling here on July 10, four more Koreans were arrested by policemen for allegedly operating an illegal Internet gambling network in the Clark Freeport Zone.

A report released by the Central Luzon regional police on Monday said policemen raided a building on Ninoy Aquino Avenue in the Clark Freeport on July 11 where Hon Kim, Young Jee-kim, Byoung Ik-kim, and Seong Hyun-kim, all residents of Angeles City, were arrested.

In a report, Chief Supt. Raul Petrasanta, Central Luzon police director, said the policemen, who were armed with a search warrant issued by Judge Norman Pamintuan of the Olongapo City Regional Trial Court Branch 73, arrested the Koreans for alleged violations of Presidential Decree No. 1602, which penalizes illegal gambling, and Republic Act No. 8484, which prohibits the use of electronic devices in fraudulent acts.

The subject of the search warrant, Kim Min-gi, was not in the building during the raid.

Seized from the building being rented by Kim were 12 sets of desktop computers, telephones, modems, Internet routers and seven pieces of credit cards. Jun Malig, Inquirer Central Luzon