Korean wanted for extortion arrested in Pasay

Operatives of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have arrested a Korean man wanted by authorities in Seoul for alleged involvement in extortion and acts of violence.

Kim Tae Young, 46, was arrested last Friday along Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay City, the BI said Monday.

The BI said Kim allegedly posed as a lawyer to extort 500 million won or more than US$400,000 (P20.6 million) from a person who was charged with sexual assault of a minor. He allegedly demanded the money as purported settlement for the case, the bureau said.

Bobby Raquepo, head of the BI's fugitive search unit, said Kim was placed in the bureau's blacklist of wanted foreign fugitives in August 2017.

The BI said Kim was also reportedly the owner of a warehouse that the NBI raided earlier this month.

Kim will be deported for being an undesirable and undocumented alien and for posing a risk to public safety and security, Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said.

He is currently in NBI custody. --Nicole-Anne C. Lagrimas/KBK, GMA News