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MANILA, Philippines � P150 million in cash was believed to have exchanged hands in the escape of a South Korean fugitive from the custody of immigration jail guards last year.

Insiders made the disclosure as Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. ordered Thursday Associate Commissioner Siefred Bison to look into the escape last August of South Korean Kim Tae Dong who is wanted in his country for large-scale estafa.

The same sources said the jail guards and certain unscrupulous immigration officers accepted the bribe in exchange for their small retirement benefits in case they would later be found guilty of negligence and infidelity in the custody of a prisoner.

They said the bribe offer was plausible considering that the fugitive had a history of being generous in offering cash to his guards who, at one time, allowed him to loiter around a shopping mall near the BI Bicutan detention center in Taguig in return.

Dong also offered P200,000 to BI operatives when they arrested him last July inside the Ortigas Commercial Center in Pasig. The BI agents, however, rejected his offer.

The 54-year-old Korean escaped at the St. Luke�s Medical Center where he was taken after complaining of hypertension and diabetes last August.

The same immigration officials said the fugitive was quick in offering bribes to escape repatriation to Seoul where a warrant of arrest is waiting for him allegedly for swindling casino players of more than $8 million in baccarat card game (Lucky Nine).

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/347121/p150m-koreans-escape