▲ This photo released by the Korean National Police Agency on April 27, 2026, shows a South Korean criminal suspect arriving at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, from Cambodia. (Yonhap)

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73 criminal suspects repatriated from Cambodia, Philippines since late Feb.

SEOUL, April 27 (Yonhap) -- The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) said Monday that 73 South Koreans suspected of committing crimes, such as voice phishing, in Cambodia and the Philippines have been repatriated over the past two months.

In the repatriation operation that lasted from Feb. 26 to April 22, 42 suspects returned from Cambodia and 31 from the Philippines, the agency said, adding 69 of them have been detained here and transferred to the prosecution.

The repatriates from the Philippines included a ringleader who hacked a capital company's website server in 2011, stole the personal information of 1.75 million people and extorted 100 million won (US$68,000) from the company.

Among those repatriated from Cambodia were 24 members of a criminal organization who swindled 51.7 billion won from 368 voice phishing victims and 14 members of a "romance scam" organization that extorted 2.3 billion won from 53 victims.

The KNPA said the latest repatriation operation has been swiftly executed based on cooperative relationships with the police forces of the two Southeast Asian countries.

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