Bureau of Immigration (BI) operatives arrested another South Korean fugitive wanted for illegal gambling in his country.
In a report to Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente, the BI’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) identified the Korean as 39-year-old Jeong Mungil, who was arrested last Thursday at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.
Jeong was arrested on the strength of a mission order which Morente issued at the request of South Korean authorities in Manila.
According to BI-FSU Chief Rendel Ryan Sy, the Korean is subject of a red notice from the Interpol and an arrest warrant issued by the Ulsan District Court in South Korea.
Jeong was charged before the said court for violating South Korea’s National Sports Promotion Act, Sy said.
Information provided by the Interpol’s National Central Bureau in Manila revealed that in 2012, Jeong and several accomplices operated an online gambling site from their condominium unit in Makati City. The syndicate allegedly solicited clients in SouthKorea by letting them bet on the results of several sports competitions.
South Korean authorities said the syndicate amassed a profit of more than 6.5 billion won, or roughly US$5.3 million, from the said racket.
Jeong is currently detained at the BI Warden Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings.
Comelec to identify areas of concern
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to identify the areas of concern on their list in connection with the upcoming May 9 elections.
Commissioner George Garcia, in the Laging Handa briefing, said that the record is based on submissions by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that each area is ‘color coded’.
In the PNP’s classification, they labeled each area green, yellow, orange, and red depending on its security level prior to the election.
Green is considered generally peaceful, while areas of concern are marked in yellow due to past incidents of violence in two consecutive elections.
Orange is an area of immediate concern due to the presence of armed groups such as the New People’s Army and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, while red is an area where both political clans and armed groups have committed violence.
He said the term election hotspots will no longer be used as agreed by the Department of National Defense and the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency.
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