S. Korean Police arrest man after Gangnam style binge
SOUTH KOREA: A South Korean man who embezzled more than $4.0 million
dollars and had plastic surgery to evade capture, has been arrested
after a hostess bar spending spree in Seoul's upmarket Gangnam district.
The 33-year-old, identified as Yoon, was finally tracked down after
two of his accomplices were arrested, police said Friday.
The head of the accounting department at a semi-conductor
manufacturer, Yoon transferred 4.7 billion won ($4.3 million) of company
funds to a series of secret bank accounts, police said. Feigning a
family emergency, he left the company in early January, withdrew much of
the cash, and went on a 10-day binge in Gangnam, spending hundreds of
millions of won in high-class hostess bars and buying a Mercedes-Benz
sedan.
Worried that he might be spotted, Yoon went to the southern city of
Gwangju where he had extensive plastic surgery to assume a new identity.
He then returned to his high-spending ways and hostess bars, but the
police eventually caught up with him near Gwangju on Wednesday following
a tip-off from his detained accomplices.
Yoon was "a totally different person" when he was take into custody,
a police spokeswoman in Asan told AFP.
"He'd had a nose and eye job, and his face had changed drastically,"
the spokeswoman said.
AFP |