Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) deported two South Korean nationals wanted in their own country for electronic financial fraud.
BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said Kwon Hyuckkeun, 41 and You Hyun Tea, 53, were deported to Incheon, South Korea via a Korean Air flight last August 21.
“Our counterparts in Seoul were informed about their impending arrival there. Korean policemen apprehended them upon their arrival,” he said.
Tansingco said the two were already ordered deported as early 2021 for being undesirable aliens and being fugitives from justice and that red notices issued by the Interpol revealed that the duo are subjects of criminal cases accusing them of violating Korea’s electronic financial transactions act.
Authorities alleged that You conspired with an accomplice to operate an illegal sports gambling site in the Internet.
BI spokesperson Dana Sandoval meantime said that both Koreans were placed in the immigration blacklist and banned from re-entering the country.
It was learned from Sandoval that the suspects allegedly managed to borrow money from their victims who were promised 30 percent of their profit but were instead defrauded of more than 100 million won, or about US$82,000.
Kwon allegedly operated a call center that employed voice phishing to defraud victims who were duped into sending their debit cards to the suspects who promised their money would yield profits in low-interest loan transactions.
Sandoval said the two were arrested by immigration operatives on May and June this year, respectively.
