Ho Chi Minh City Police arrested Korean criminals wanted by Interpol

A criminal wanted by Interpol was arrested by Ho Chi Minh City police and returned to his homeland, South Korea, on December 28. Accordingly, he fled because he was the administrator of a gambling website. online silver.

On December 28, Ho Chi Minh City Police are carrying out procedures to hand over subject Kim Jeehoon (35 years old, Korean nationality) to the Korean Police.

It is known that Kim Jeehoon (35 years old, Korean nationality) was identified as a gambling kingpin, internationally wanted by Interpol. This person is part of the online gambling organization with the role of web administrator.

Kim Jeehoon's group operated in Korea from late 2020 to May 2023 when it was destroyed by Korean authorities. Immediately after this ring was discovered, Kim Jeehoon fled Korea and has been internationally wanted by Interpol since December 20, 2023.

Kim Jeehoon is part of an online gambling organization as a website administrator. According to records, from December 12, 2020 to May 25, 2023, the subjects organized and received players' deposits on the 777SLOT website at www.7slot.com without permission. The Korean government licenses according to regulations.

After being discovered by the police, the subject fled to Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City police have repeatedly successfully "captured" internationally wanted subjects when they came to Vietnam to hide.

Previously, on June 1, Ho Chi Minh City Police said it had coordinated with the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Public Security and related units to arrest 3 subjects. Koreans (with international arrest warrants) using high technology to commit crimes.

The arrested subjects include: Jeong Kiwon (born 1974, Korean nationality, entered the country on March 23, 2023); Park Jaihyung (born 1983, Korean nationality, entered the country on September 20, 2022); Jang WooJin (born 1980, Korean nationality, entered the country on March 28, 2023).

According to Ho Chi Minh City Police, these subjects entered and operated in Vietnam under the guise of being foreign investors and experts sponsored and cooperated by a number of businesses in Ho Chi Minh City. Finalize visa and temporary residence card applications.

According to Interpol's wanted profile, the suspects created and operated a website operating the "Slot" game system on the Internet in Vietnam.

Groups of people working together often communicate via the Telegram application and set a mode to automatically delete messages during the day to avoid detection by authorities.

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When arriving in Vietnam, the subjects did not stay at the address declared upon entry but hid in many areas in Ho Chi Minh City, making it difficult for the authorities to arrest them.

Also this year, on July 10, the Criminal Police Department handed over two particularly dangerous international wanted subjects: Phan Polie (born 1996) and Nguyen Vu Jaidan (born 1997), American nationality. to the US Police according to regulations.

Specifically, recently, the Criminal Police Department in Ho Chi Minh City arrested 4 internationally wanted subjects. Among them, emerging is the work of verifying and arresting two subjects, Phan Polie and Nguyen Vu Jaidan, whose arrest warrants were issued by the district court, Harris County, Texas, USA on March 15, 2023; An international arrest warrant was issued by the Interpol General Secretariat on April 18.

Determining that these are two particularly dangerous subjects who committed the act of taking the lives of two people in the US in January and entered Vietnam to hide, the leader of the Criminal Police Department directed the Wanted Division to pursue Seek to concentrate forces, apply many professional measures, and coordinate with police units and localities to carry out verification and arrest.

The highest goal is to capture these two subjects in order to prevent them from continuing to commit crimes in Vietnam.

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