TWO foreigners, a Korean and a Chinese and who are in the Interpol’s list of wanted fugitives were nabbed by Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado said the two aliens were apprehended separately at the NAIA terminal 3 last week, before they could board their outbound flights bound for South Korea and Malaysia. They were accosted by BI personnel as both of them prompted positive hits in the BI’s database of persons who are subjects of Interpol red notices.
The Korean passenger, a certain Li Su Bin, was eventually allowed to board his flight after BI officials informed their counterparts in Seoul about the impending arrival of the fugitive. He was later arrested by Korean policemen upon arriving at the Incheon airport.
On the other hand, the Chinese passenger identified as Yao Bin, was offloaded from his Malaysia-bound flight and detained at the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings. Information obtained from the BI-Interpol unit revealed that Li is wanted in Seoul for involvement in an investment scam and is said to be a member of an investment fraud organization based in Laos that preyed on unsuspecting victims who were enticed to invest their money in crypto currencies and stocks.
Li was identified as one of the syndicate’s sales agents who “courted” customers for its love scam operations whiler Yao, the BI-Interpol said, is a member of a cybercrime syndicate that operated several gambling websites.
Viado said the websites allegedly solicited more than 260,000 Chinese customers who gambled on the results of international sports competitions and whose combined bets amounted to more than 2 billion yuan, or more than US$276 million.
Yao worked as promotions and customer service manager for the syndicate and earned more than 2 million yuan, or US$276,000, in salaries and commissions from the group’s illicit proceeds, Viado added.
