Philippine authorities on Tuesday arrested a Korean fugitive in Pasig City last Tuesday on the strength of a mission order issued by the Bureau of Immigration (BI), the bureau said Friday.
The BI identified the Korean as Kim Tae Dong, 54, who was collared by BI operatives in Ortigas Center.
The fugitive is wanted by the authorities in Seoul for defrauding his compatriots of more than $8 million in Baccarat.
BI chief Ricardo David Jr. issued the mission order at the request of the Korean embassy in Manila.
The embassy wants Kim deported to Korea where an arrest order was issued against him by the Dongbu district court in Seoul.
“We will expel him as soon as the board of commissioners issues the order for his summary deportation," David said, adding that the Korean will be blacklisted and banned from re-entering the Philippines as an undesirable alien.
David also commended the
The agents who arrested Kim, led by BI-Fugitive Search Unit head Use Dan Salamis, refused the money the Korean offered them on exchange for his release.
BI intelligence chief Maria Antoinette Bucasas-Mangrobang said that that Kim, along with nine other suspects, is wanted for cheating gamblers in a Baccarat game in connivance with card dealers.
Kim and his accomplices supposedly did their modus operandi at the Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul on Jan. 3, Jan. 23 and Dec. 23 last year.
Immigration records showed Kim last arrived in the Philippines last April 8 and was issued a working visa by the bureau.
“But the said visa will be canceled as a consequence of his being a fugitive from justice and an undesirable alien," Mangrobang said. — VS
