'Guro-gu body-dumping' suspects: “Mistook it for a doll,” “I followed instructions” ... police to seek arrest warrants (roundup)

[Financial News] Police plan to seek arrest warrants for two men arrested on suspicion of dumping a body in a residential area of Guro-gu, Seoul, or ordering its disposal. One of them told police during questioning that he had mistaken the body for a doll.
According to police on the 28th, Seoul Guro Police Station plans to seek arrest warrants after conducting further investigations into A, a man in his 60s suspected of abandoning a body, and B, a man in his 80s suspected of instigating the abandonment.
The previous afternoon, police identified the two men using CCTV footage and inquiries, then arrested them one after the other at their respective homes and completed an initial round of questioning.
During questioning, B claimed that he had instructed someone to throw away an object that looked like a doll in a building he owned, and said he had not known it was a body.
A said he had suspected during the disposal that it might be a body, but had only followed B’s instructions.
Police believe A dumped the body alone on the morning of the 22nd at B’s instruction. It has not been established whether B specified the exact location where it was to be dumped.
B owns a multi-unit residence in Guro-gu, and A was formerly a tenant in the building. Investigators found that A routinely helped B with tasks such as putting out the trash and looked up to him as a father. The two now live in separate buildings.
Around 11 a.m. the previous day, a sanitation worker with the Guro-gu Office found the body at a trash drop-off site in a residential area of Guro-gu and reported it to police.
The body, wrapped in plastic and newspaper, had been left in the same place for five days. It had undergone some decomposition and drying, but no clear outward signs of homicide were found.
Other sanitation workers also visited the dump site during that period, but the specific reason the body was not collected has not been determined. Investigators found no separate waste-disposal markings on the wrapping around the body.
An examination estimated that the deceased was a man somewhere between his 50s and 80s, but his nationality and when he died have not yet been determined.
Police plan to use an autopsy by the National Forensic Service to establish the deceased’s identity and cause of death, while also investigating the circumstances of the suspects’ alleged crime and whether they were involved in the death.
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