IMMIGRATION agents have apprehended a former South Korean police officer wanted in his home country and by the Interpol for setting up a phishing company that preys on unsuspecting victims in Korea and neighboring countries.
Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said Park Junghoon, 49, was arrested by operatives from the agency’s Fugitive Search Unit and the Camarines Sur 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company on Magsaysay Ave. in Naga City last October 4.
Morente said Park was arrested on the strength of a warrant of deportation issued against him for being an undocumented and undesirable alien.
Park, a fugitive from justice, has two warrants of arrest issued by the Gwangju District court in August 2013 and Seoul Daejeon District court in 2014 both for fraud.
Morente said information from their South Korean counterparts showed that Park is a former Korean National Police Agency officer who set up call centers for telecom fraud in the Philippines, as well as in Vietnam and China.
He reportedly conspired with other members of a voice phishing crime organization from 2012 to 2013 and deceived thousands of victims by pretending to be a loan officer in financial institutions with total damages of more than $100 million.
Morente said Park tricked his victims by telling them they would receive a loan if they paid processing fees, and later asked the victims to pay directly to his account.
