(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration on Monday announced the arrest of a South Korean allegedly behind a multi-million dollar “telephone fraud scheme” in his country.
In a statement, BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said Jung Hyojin, 35, was nabbed by BI Fugitive Search Unit agents in Malate, Manila on Thursday, February 22.
According to BI FSU chief Bobby Raquepo, Jung, who is the subject of an Interpol red notice, was the leader of a criminal group whose members pretended to be investigators and made phone calls to victims, extorting money from them.
Raquepo said that based on information from investigators, the organization operated from Feb. 2013 to February 2015.
He said Jung–who is now the subject of three warrants of arrest issued by the Seoul central district court—and his cohorts disappeared with the more than $8 million they extorted from their victims.
“A check of the BI database showed that Jung fled to Manila on Feb. 23, 2015, and did not leave the country since then,” he said.
According to Morente, the South Korean, who is also an “overstaying and undocumented alien,” will be deported “to face trial in his homeland and receive punishment for his crimes, like “all the other wanted foreign criminals that we caught after hiding here to avoid prosecution.”
