Lawyer arrested for filing fraudulent refugee applications for illegal immigrants
Social affairsJul 4, 2018
A senior staff attorney of a law firm has been arrested for filing fraudulent refugee applications for foreigners who are not asylum seekers, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday. Seoul Immigration office has transferred cases of three people, including a 46-year-old lawyer surnamed Kang, to the prosecution for violation of the immigration law. (Yonhap)According to the ministry, the lawyer abused the country’s refugee application program to help foreigners that are not refugee-status seekers to il