The National Police Agency announced today that it was forcibly repatriated to Korea yesterday (24th) of A (44), the head of a telephone financial fraud organization arrested in the area through international cooperation with Chinese public security.
This is the first case of repatriation to Korea among the six heads of phone financial fraud organizations arrested by the National Police Agency in cooperation with Chinese and Philippine investigative authorities this year.
Mr. A, who started the crime as a member of a telephone financial fraud subordinate organization in China in May 2012, moved to the Philippines in March 2016 to form a criminal organization and rob more than 120 victims with loans for repayment of low interest rates, etc. Chan is charged.
The National Police Agency received an Interpol red wanted for Mr. A at the request of the Seongnam Jungwon Police Station, which is the wanted office, and was tracking Mr. A's overseas escape center with the Interpol International Cooperation Team of the Seoul and Busan Police Agency and the Jeonnam Police Agency's foreign affairs division earlier this year. We have received information that Mr. A is hiding in China.
Afterwards, the National Police Agency shared the information with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, and the Chinese police arrested Mr. A in his hideout on the 13th of this month.
The National Police Agency explained that the fact that the forced repatriation took place 10 days after the local arrest was effective because the National Police Agency closely negotiated the repatriation schedule with the local police and the police chief immediately after the arrest.
As the new Commissioner of the National Police Agency Yoon Hee-geun took office, the police are focusing on the arrest and repatriation of overseas phone financial fraud.
In particular, the Korean Desk dispatched to the Philippines worked with local investigative authorities to arrest five general managers based in China, the Philippines, and Thailand in the first half of this year.
In the case of Mr. B, who was arrested in May, he is accused of operating an illegal cryptocurrency reading room fraud organization and stealing 600 million won.
The Korean Desk, which obtained this information in the Manila area of the Philippines, raided the residence and office of Mr. B together with the local investigative authorities, and arrested Mr. B and three members of the organization.
We plan to repatriate them to Korea as soon as local administrative procedures are completed.
"In the future, we will strengthen international cooperation so that we can respond to malicious fraudulent crimes based overseas and even recover damages to the extent permitted by the laws of the relevant countries," said Kang Ki-taek, director of Interpol's international cooperation division at the National Police Agency.
(Photo = provided by the National Police Agency, Yonhap News)