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Manhunt for (Billionaire) Patriarch, Sons Over Ferry
Wall Street Journal ^ | 5-22-2014 | Kwanwoo Jun

Posted on 05/24/2014 1:40:32 PM PDT by Renfield

A convoy carrying South Korean investigators looking for Yoo Byung-eun enters a compound in Anseong, south of Seoul, on Wednesday. Getty Images

South Korean authorities are conducting a nationwide manhunt for three members of the family that controls the company that operated the Sewol ferry, which capsized and sank last month, leaving more than 300 people dead or missing.

On Wednesday, prosecution investigators–backed by more than 1,000 riot police–raided a sprawling church compound in Anseong, south of Seoul, where family patriarch Yoo Byung-eun was suspected to have been hiding.

Prosecutors said Mr. Yoo may have left the compound days earlier.

A local court in Incheon, west of Seoul, issued a warrant to detain Mr. Yoo Thursday afternoon, prosecutors said.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea

1 posted on 05/24/2014 1:40:32 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: Renfield

He’s probably in Pyongyang asking for asylum...


2 posted on 05/24/2014 1:42:20 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
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To: Renfield
prosecution investigators–backed by more than 1,000 riot police–raided a sprawling church compound

And they say US LEOs are militarized!

3 posted on 05/24/2014 1:42:30 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Mr. Jeeves

It would be a perfect place for him to hide if he can hide his money elsewhere and can release it a little at a time to keep Lil Kim from killing him.


4 posted on 05/24/2014 1:44:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

That what everything think on NHK world news LOL!


5 posted on 05/24/2014 1:46:03 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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