DBPH Admin2 
A SOUTH Korean man wanted by authorities in Seoul for telecommunications fraud has been arrested and will be deported to his country, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said.
In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco identified the fugitive as 33-year-old Park Seul Ki, who was arrested on Aug. 12 in his residence in a village in Parañaque City by a team of operatives from the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU).
Tansingco said Park was arrested on the strength of a warrant of deportation which he issued pursuant to a summary deportation order that the BI board of commissioners issued against the Korean in 2017 for being an undesirable alien.
“He had continuously eluded arrest for the past seven years since he fled to the Philippines to avoid prosecution for his crime. Finally, the long arm of the law has caught him and we will send him back to Korea so he could answer the charges filed against him,” Tansingco added.
He bared that Park cannot return to the Philippines as he has been placed in the immigration blacklist and banned from re-entering the country.
The Interpol’s national central bureau (NCB) in Manila said that Park is subject of an arrest warrant issued by the central district prosecutor’s office in Seoul and the Hong Sung district court where he was charged with fraud for violating Korea’s telecommunications business act.
Authorities alleged that Park is a member of a syndicate that employs voice phishing to defraud its victims.
Members of the syndicate allegedly made calls to pose as government investigators, deceiving victims into personal information to be used in the suspects’ fraudulent activities.
Park is already an undocumented alien his passport has been cancelled by the Korean government. Records show that he arrived in 2016, and has not left the country since.
The Korean was committed to the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City where he will remain while awaiting deportation.
