By Bernama
Jakarta : The Indonesian Police have deported a South Korean national identified as Seung Yong Shin for fraud case involving US$2 million in his country, Indonesia’s Antara news agency reported.
The suspect was handed over by the Indonesian Police’s National Central Bureau (NBC)/national Interpol and Jakarta Police officers to the South Korean immigration officers, a spokesman of the Indonesian Police, Senior Commissioner Bambang Kuncoko said here on Thursday.
Indonesian police in Jakarta, last week, arrested the South Korean national for alleged fraud in a business deal with a number of his countrymen in South Korea.
A source at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Headquarters earlier said the foreigner was nabbed based on information from South Korean police.
Seung had persuaded fellow South Koreans to invest in a biofuel production project in Indonesia which they claimed was being implemented in cooperation with the Banten provincial administration and guaranteed by the South Korean embassy in Jakarta.
However, as time went by, the investors never received any returns on their investment and had difficulty getting their money back. The victims later reported about the fraud to the South Korean police.
South Korean police later asked for the assistance of the Interpol to arrest the suspect who had fled to Indonesia.
After receiving the information via Interpol, Indonesian police went into action and were able to arrest Seung Yong Shin at Kelapa Gading area, Jakarta, on Feb 24.