Do Kwon Faces Deportation as South Korea Moves To Invalidate Passport

Terra LUNA price spells trouble as the passport of Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon is expected to expire on Oct. 19, meaning he faces becoming an illegal alien wherever he is currently living.

If the passport of an individual living abroad becomes invalidated, the holder faces deportation. In the case of Do Kwon, authorities hope this will precipitate a breakthrough in the investigation into the disgraced chief executive.

But where is Terraforms Labs CEO Do Kwon at present?

According to South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office, Kwon was issued an order to return his passport on Oct. 5.  

However, if the passport is not returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a passport management agency, or a diplomatic mission abroad within 14 days of the announcement, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said the passport would lose its validity, in accordance with Article 13 of the country’s Passport Act. 

Accordingly, if Kwon does not surrender his passport by Oct. 19, it will no longer be valid, and his status within his last known residence of Singapore will change to that of an illegal resident.

At this point, authorities in South Korea hope the local government will expel Kwon, and perhaps cooperate with extraditing the f