THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported the arrest of a South Korean man wanted by the Interpol and authorities in Seoul for financial fraud who attempted to leave the country via the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
Immigration Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado identified the passenger 29-year-old Jung Hyunjoon, who was intercepted by BI officers at the NAIA terminal 3 last March 24 before he could board a China Southern Airlines flight to Guangzhou, China.
Viado said Jung was arrested and detained pending deportation proceedings that will be initiated against him for being an undesirable alien.
“He will be deported to Korea to face the cases filed against him,” said Viado. “Consequently, he will be included in our blacklist and banned from re-entering the Philippines,” the BI chief added.
Dennis Javier, BI-NAIA terminal 3 head supervisor, disclosed that Jung presented himself for departure formalities at the immigration counter when the BI officer who processed noticed that his name prompted a hit in the BI’s Interpol red notice list.
“He was referred for secondary inspection to our duty supervisors who verified and established that the passenger and the person named in the red notice are one and the same,” Javier said.
According to BI-Interpol chief Peter de Guzman, Jung is subject of an arrest warrant issued by a Korean court where he was indicted for involvement in electronic financial fraud.
Jung was allegedly accused of conspiring with a member of a voice phishing syndicate in receiving 5 million won from a victim of the syndicate more than two years ago.
De Guzman said the incident happened in 2022 when Jung received an offer from the syndicate member to receive the money from the victim in return for a five-percent commission.
The Korean was committed to the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City where he will remain while awaiting deportation.
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