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davidpdx

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Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:48 PM Jun 2014

Ferry Owner's Brother Arrested [View all]

Source: Chosunilbo

The younger brother of ferry owner Yoo Byung-eon was arrested at his home in southeastern Korea on Sunday morning on charges of embezzlement.

Prosecutors and police obtained an arrest warrant against Yoo Byung-ho (61) and had been tracking him down. He is a one-time auditor at an online shopping mall owned by Yoo and his children, and is also the father-in-law of singer and head of JYP Entertainment Park Jin-young.

That brings to seven the members of Yoo's family who have been arrested, including his older brother Byung-il, brother-in-law Kwon Oh-gyun (64), wife Kwon Yun-ja (71), his sister and her husband Oh Gab-riel (60), and eldest daughter Sum-na.

Prosecutors believe that Oh Gab-riel, a former Korean ambassador, mobilized members of Yoo's cult to aid his flight from the law. Oh allegedly helped Yoo emerge secretly by car from his sect's compound south of Seoul on April 23, when the investigation into his alleged wrongdoings intensified.


Read more: http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/06/23/2014062302608.html



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