Bust of the South Korean Police Bureuse of Casino from Casino
Police in South Korea destroyed a casino extortion ring targeting rich individuals. The southern police agency of Gyeonggi reported that criminals used various methods to bribe and mislead the victims.
The International Crime Investigation Division International International Crime Investigation Unit led the operation.
South Korean police take action against extorters
A press release from the authorities said that twelve suspects had been apprehended, with six orders, and that a person owned abroad is now requested in the context of a repatriation process.
Chef Kim Jun-Young said the police arrested “12 people, including the chief of a so-called configuration crime organization, who attracted rich people abroad under the pretension of golf trips between December 2022 and April 2024, then extorted money under the cover of the reprimand on the prostitution of the sub-minors or a game of bars of $ 1.19 million) $ 19,000).
Extractors target rich individuals for $ 850,000
An individual known only under the name of Mr. A would be the “brain” behind the group and the actions to defraud the money of rich targeted victims. Mr. A allegedly used monitoring locations on victims vehicles to ensure that he had their exact location to carry out the planned fraud.
A South Korean national was targeted during playing golf in November 2022. Mr. A and his accomplices would have prompted the individual to join a golf trip to Thailand, but without the victim, they would be involved in a deeper extortion program.
The report indicated that the criminal group “encouraged the victim to engage in the prostitution of a minor, then extorted 240 million won ($ 172,000) under the pretext of covering the prostitution of a minor”.
Between October 2023 and April 2024, Mr. A also executed a program to attract rich golfers in Cambodia with the “promise of a golf trip abroad, and frauds them with 950 million won ($ 683,000) by making them lose money in casinos.”
Mr. A would have appointed roles for his group and recruited officials from the Cambodian casino for the victim to be “$ 700,000 in debt of play”. Staging scenarios where the targets were misled to believe that one of their group was held hostage to the casino to extort fees of 650 million won ($ 467,000).
South Korean police urges caution on Casino scams
Chef Kim Jun-Young has urged caution, saying: “that this type of configuration crime is characterized by the fact that the victims are attracted to crime without being aware of the situation and tend to be reluctant to report crime because they think they are also involved in crime, so special care is necessary.”
The South Korean police asked to seize the passport of the individual in detention abroad and asked “the International Organization of the Criminal Police (Interpol) to issue a red opinion for his arrest”.
We have pointed out that the only South Korean casino where the inhabitants are authorized to play have published a public declaration on the online fraud of the casino. Kangwon Land refuted links with illegal online game platforms and urged Korea from Communication Communication Standards to block all sites imitating their brand image.
Featured image: Ideogram.
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