When Vo Van Sinh fled an arrest warrant 13 years ago, he might have stopped forging government documents, but he didn’t stop working for government.

Police from the Ministry of Public Security recently arrested the fugitive in southern Binh Phuoc Province, where he was in his eighth year as deputy chief inspector at the province’s Department of Planning and Investment.

Federal prosecutors on Friday charged Sinh, 44, with “organizing for others to go abroad illegally.”

Sinh joined a governmental wanted list in 1999, after he allegedly helped falsify paperwork for people seeking work overseas. He earned a commission for each successful application from a man identified only as Xuan, who recruited him and posed as an official at the security ministry’s immigration department.

Although Sinh was detained June 16, the director of his department, Vo Thanh Nam, told reporters that his agency has yet to be notified. When that happens, the department will meet to take action against Sinh, Nam said.

Sinh joined the department in June 1997, a month after police began investigating his activities with Xuan. In 2002, he was admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam.

A native of central Quang Ngai Province, Sinh graduated from the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, where he went on to work for a number of businesses before joining the department.

His wife also works in Binh Phuoc, as an official at the provincial Department of Education and Training.