Digital Gyodoso 1st Generation Operator Repatriated to Korea... Investigation of 2nd Generation Operators Accelerates

Police Deploy Charter Flight to Vietnam
Hit-and-Run Suspect from 2 Years Ago Also Repatriated
Commissioner General of Police: "Second-Term Management Team Will Also Be Swiftly Apprehended"

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gwan-joo] The first operator of Digital Prison, who was apprehended in Vietnam, will be repatriated to South Korea. A man in his 40s who fled after causing a hit-and-run accident that killed a taxi driver two years ago will also be repatriated together.

The National Police Agency announced on the 5th that two major international fugitives apprehended in Vietnam will be repatriated to South Korea. They are scheduled to arrive through Incheon Airport on the morning of the 6th.

A man in his 30s identified as the operator of Digital Prison, Mr. A, was arrested by local police in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, around 6 p.m. local time on the 22nd of last month.

Mr. A is suspected of creating and operating the Digital Prison website and Instagram account since March this year, unlawfully posting personal information and sentencing results of sex offenders, digital sex crimes, murder, and child abuse suspects.

Additionally, the police will repatriate Mr. B, a man in his 40s who fled after fatally striking a taxi driver on the street in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, in February 2018. Mr. B fled to Hong Kong on the day of the accident, then re-fled to Vietnam, where he was arrested in Da Nang last September for violating local laws. After serving a one-year sentence, he will be repatriated to South Korea upon completion of his term.

Due to the suspension of regular flights amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the police decided to use a special charter flight to repatriate them.

Kim Chang-ryong, Commissioner of the National Police Agency, said at a press briefing that "various cooperative investigations are underway targeting the second group of Digital Prison operators as accomplices," and added, "We will identify and apprehend them as early as possible."

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