Prosecutors Arrest and Indict Optimus Key Broker After 4-Month Fugitive Run

Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office / Photo by Moon Ho-nam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Daehyun] A broker affiliated with Optimus Asset Management (Optimus), who evaded prosecution for four months and was caught earlier this month, has been brought to trial.

On the 23rd, the Economic Crime Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Jumincheol) indicted broker Ki Mo (57) on charges of fraud under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes related to the Optimus fund fraud case. He is identified as a key lobbyist in the Optimus case along with other brokers Shin Mo and Kim Mo.

He was also indicted for violating the Attorney-at-Law Act by conspiring with Shin and others previously indicted to solicit a former Financial Supervisory Service official in May last year, receiving 20 million won from Optimus CEO Kim Jaehyun under the pretense of a bribe.

Additionally, he is accused of bribing the representative of minority shareholders of Haeduck Powerway, a ship supplies manufacturer acquired with Optimus funds in January last year, with approximately 650 million won to solicit voting rights (breach of trust and violation of the Commercial Act), and of inflating the amount of money to be given to the representative to extort an additional 1 billion won from CEO Kim (fraud under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes).

Ki fled after the prosecution requested an arrest warrant in November last year and was apprehended in a provincial area earlier this month after four months on the run.

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