A South Korean national wanted in his home country for fraud was arrested in Camp Crame last Sunday, August 20.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco identified the wanted person as Son Sobeom, 33.
Son was arrested by the Bureau of Immigration's (BI) fugitive search unit, in coordination with Korean authorities and the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Anti-Transnational Crime Unit (PNP-CIDG-ATCU).
Tansingco said the Korean national was subject of a warrant of deportation that the BI issued in 2017 after being tagged as an undesirable and undocumented alien.
His passport was reportedly cancelled by the Korean government and a warrant of arrest was issued against him by the Suwon District Court in 2016 for fraud in violation of the Criminal Act of the Republic of Korea.
Son is known to be a member of a telecoms fraud syndicate that operates by posing as bank employees.
The scammers would then offer low interest loans via telephone or text messages to unsuspecting victims.
The scheme was said to have defrauded over KRW188 million, or equivalent to P8 million, from their Korean victims.
Son will remain in the CIDG-ATCU’s facility pending deportation proceedings.
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