The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has arrested two South Koreans wanted for telecom fraud and a Chinese charged with economic crimes in their respective countries.
BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said Koreans Kim Changhan, 25, and Kim Junhee, 38, were arrested last week by operatives from the bureau’s fugitive search unit (FSU) in separate operations conducted in Makati City and Porac, Pampanga.
On the other hand, 51-year-old Chinese woman Zhang Yujie was collare in Mandaluyong City last Friday.
The BI chief said that the two South Koreans already have summary deportation orders issued against them in 2019 and 2020 for being undesirable aliens.
FSU chief Rendel Ryan Sy said the deportation order against Kim Changan was in relation to an arrest warrant issued by the Seoul Central District Court in October 2020 while Kim Junhee faces a warrant issued by Seoul Nambu District Court in July 2019.
Information obtained from the Interpol’s national central bureau (NCB) in Manila revealed that Kim Changan is the leader of a telecom fraud syndicate based in Sandong-sung China engaged in voice phishing that defrauded their compatriots of more than 63 million won or nearly US$53 million.
The NCB disclosed that Kim Junhee was also tagged as a member of a telecom fraud syndicate based in Tianjin, China that defrauded its victims of over 110 million won or about US$92 million.
As for Zhang, Chinese authorities sought her deportation due to an arrest warrant issued against her in China for alleged involvement economic crime activities.