Of 73 members of Cambodia repatriation ring, 55 placed under arrest; warrant reviews for the rest this afternoon

According to The Financial News, 55 out of 73 Korean criminal gang members who took part in scams and kidnapping and robbery in the Kingdom of Cambodia and were repatriated to Korea have been placed under arrest, including a so‐called "scammer couple."
The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) National Office of Investigation announced to the media on the 26th, "As of 9 a.m., arrest warrants have been issued for all 55 suspects, excluding 17 whose substantive warrant reviews are scheduled for this afternoon, out of the 72 for whom arrest warrants were requested."
Specifically, arrest warrants were issued for 49 suspects handled by the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Investigation Unit of the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, 2 by the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Investigation Unit of the Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency, 1 by the Criminal Investigation Mobile Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA), 1 by the SMPA Financial Crime Investigation Unit, 1 by Seocho Police Station under the SMPA, and 1 by the Cyber Crime Investigation Unit of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency. For the remaining 17 suspects under investigation by the Criminal Mobile Unit of the Chungnam Provincial Police Agency, pretrial detention hearings (substantive warrant reviews) are scheduled to take place this afternoon.
Earlier, on the morning of the 23rd, the Special Task Force on Transnational Crimes repatriated 73 suspects to Korea who had used the Kingdom of Cambodia as a base to defraud 869 Korean victims of about 48.6 billion won. This is the largest number of criminal suspects ever repatriated to Korea in a single operation.
Those repatriated include a romance scammer couple who used deepfake technology to pose as fictitious persons and defrauded 104 Korean victims of about 12 billion won, fugitives who committed sex crimes against minors and then fled to the Kingdom of Cambodia where they joined scam operations, and the ringleader of a fraud syndicate that posed as investment experts and swindled roughly 19.4 billion won from young workers and retirees.
On the day after the repatriation, the 24th, police applied for arrest warrants for all 73 individuals brought back to Korea. Prosecutors then requested arrest warrants for 72 of them and declined to seek a warrant for the remaining one suspect.
welcome@fnnews.com Jang Yu-ha Reporter