Bureau of Immigration (BI) operatives have arrested a South Korean fugitive wanted by his government for swindling a compatriot five years ago.
BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said 49-year-old Kim Dong Woo was nabbed Monday, April 12 in Las Pinas City by operatives from the bureau’s fugitive search unit (FSU).
Morente said Choi will soon be returned to Korea to face the charges in his homeland, as an order for his summary deportation was already issued last month by the BI Board of Commissioners.
According to FSU chief Bobby Raquepo, Kim is already an undocumented alien because the South Korean government already cancelled his passport.
It was learned that Kim has been on his government’s wanted list since he fled to the Philippines in February 2018 to evade fraud prosecution.
Information from BI’s Interpol database showed that in 2015, Kim enticed a victim to lend him 65 million won, or almost $58,000 for his business.
Kim promised the victim that he would pay a 20-percent interest for the loan.
However, he reneged and fled to Manila two years later upon learning that a criminal complaint was filed against him.