A South Korean wanted in Seoul for telecommunications fraud was arrested after hiding in the Philippines for more than 7 years, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said.
The fugitive, identified as Park Seul Ki, was arrested in his residence in a village in Parañaque City by a team of operatives from the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU).
“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 can answer the charges filed against him,” BI Chief Norman Tansingco said.
He said 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.
