The Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced on Monday the arrest of a scammer tagged as one of Korea’s most wanted criminals for committing at least 40 crimes in his home country, according to a statement released by the agency.
Lim Jong Keon, 33, was arrested by BI Fugitive Search Unit operatives inside a condominium in Sucat, Parañaque.
“He is the subject of an Interpol notice, and has been tagged as one of Korea’s most wanted criminals due to the large number of people that he had victimized,” BI Commissioner Jaime H. Morente said in the statement.
Mr. Morente added that “Lim will be deported at the request of the Korean Embassy in Manila, which informed the BI of Lim’s pending cases in Korean courts where he was charged with large-scale fraud.”
According to BI spokesperson Dana Krizia Sandoval, “Lim sold non-existent smart phones and other retail items to Koreans via his web portal and pocketed the money remitted to his account by hundreds of unsuspecting victims.” — Dane Angelo Enerio

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