The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is set to deport a South Korean national wanted by authorities in Seoul for involvement in electronic financial fraud.
In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente identified the fugitive as 52-year-old Je Hyun Woo, who was arrested in General Trias, Cavite on Wednesday, by operatives from the Bureau’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU).
Morente said Je will soon be sent back to South Korea as an order for his summary deportation was already issued against him by the BI Board of Commissioners in 2019.
“He has also been included in our immigration blacklist, thus he is perpetually banned from re-entering the country for being an undesirable alien,” Morente added.
According to BI-FSU Chief Rendel Ryan Sy, Je is already an overstaying, having arrived in the on 2018.
“His passport was canceled by the South Korean government, thus he is also an undocumented alien,” Sy said.
Information obtained from the Interpol’s National Central Bureau in Manila revealed that Je is subject of an outstanding arrest warrant issued by the central district court in Seoul on November 1, 2018 where he was charged for violating his country’s electronic financial transactions act.
Korean fraudster nabbed in Cavite – BI
Je is allegedly a member of a syndicate that lured its victims to open bank accounts and debit cards under the names of paper companies, after which they handed over the means of access to these accounts to third parties who used the same in committing criminal activities.
Korean authorities charged that over 1,070 offenses using the scheme were reported to the police.
Je is presently detained at the BI Warden Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City which awaiting his deportation.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said that it is hopeful that the eased travel restrictions will increase the number of travelers to the Philippines.
According to BI Commissioner Jaime Morente, the lifting of the negative RT-PCR requirement for arriving passengers who have received their full primary series of Covid-19 vaccine and at least one booster shot will encourage more travelers to visit the country.
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