The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Monday recaptured the South Korean fugitive in San Juan City, alongside two others who allegedly coddled him, nine days after he escaped from the BI detention facility.

According to BI Commissioner Norman Tansincgo, suspect Kang Juchun has been arrested by the bureau’s Fugitive Search Unit at a condominium unit along N. Domingo Street in Barangay Ermitaño, while the other two, Lim Kyung Sup and Kim Mi Kyung, were arrested for harboring a fugitive.

Moreover, drug charges will be filed against the three suspects following the P10.2 million worth of shabu found in their unit.

The Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation joined the BI manhunt for Kang, who escaped at 2 a.m.

On May 21, he escaped from the BI prison facility at Camp Bagong Diwa by scaling a 20-foot barbed wire fence and jumping onto a paved road. He allegedly took advantage of a blind hole along the fence that the facility's closed-circuit surveillance system did not cover.

Kang was issued an arrest warrant in February by the Seonsan Branch of the Daejon District Court in South Korea on allegations of murder and abandonment of a dead body.

Meanwhile, he was detained for the first time in February at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2 after arriving from Bangkok, Thailand.

The BI reported that Kim has a pending case in his home country, and both he and Lim are overstaying in the Philippines.