BY AARON RECUENCO
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have arrested a Korean engaged in foreign exchange scam victimizing his countrymen during an entrapment in Makati City.
CIDG director Maj. Gen. Joel Napoleon Coronel said the operation was based on the complaint of Kim Chong and Ji Soon who said that the suspect duped them of P230,000 when they were asking for his assistance for a money transfer to their relatives in Korea.
Coronel identified the suspect as Kim Jong Gil.
The victims told the CIDG operatives that the suspect told them that he would just go to a nearby convenience store to buy a prepaid card since it ran out of load while transferring the money during their meeting on September 10.
The victims gave P230,000 to the suspect and to convert it to Korean won for transfer to the bank accounts of their relatives.
The suspect, however, did not come back.
CIDG operatives were then able to contact the suspect as part of the entrapment. He was arrested on Wednesday in Makati City while employing the same modus.
A case of estafa/swindling was already slapped against the suspect. (Aaron Recuenco)
