ShareThisMANILA – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deported an American man wanted by South Korean authorities for fraud.
Dario Sarmiento Tomas, 52, was deported last Nov. 11 to Busan, South Korea on the strength of a warrant of deportation issued by BI officer-in-charge Ronaldo Ledesma and a summary deportation order signed by the bureau’s board of commissioners.
Ledesma said Tomas was deported at the request of the South Korean embassy in Manila, which informed the BI about an arrest warrant against the American.
According to the BI, Tomas was charged with fraud before the Busan district court for allegedly swindling a Korean woman identified as Im Hyeg-yeong and her mother, Lee Bong-sook, of some 222 million Korean won or about $82,000.