20s Younger Brother Who Killed and Abandoned Older Sister... Additional Charges of Messenger and Account Fraud Applied

On the afternoon of the 2nd, Mr. A, a man in his 20s accused of killing his older sister in her 30s and disposing of her body, is entering the Incheon District Court in Michuhol-gu, Incheon City to undergo a pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant hearing).
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Daehyun] The police have decided to apply additional charges related to the use of the victim's online messenger and bank account after the crime, against a man in his 20s who is accused of killing his older sister and disposing of her body in an agricultural waterway.

On the 2nd, the Investigation Task Force of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency announced that they plan to add charges of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection and computer-related fraud against A (27), who is under investigation for murder and corpse abandonment.

Last December, A is accused of stabbing his 30-year-old older sister B multiple times with a weapon at their apartment in Namdong-gu, Incheon, killing her, and repeatedly using B's 'KakaoTalk' account and 'mobile banking' without authorization. It was confirmed that he used B's phone USIM (Subscriber Identity Module) in another device after the crime.

After accessing his sister's KakaoTalk account, A pretended to exchange messages with himself and showed them to their parents to cancel a missing person report. The mother had filed a missing person report on February 14th, stating that B had not returned home, but withdrew the report on the 1st of last month.

He sent messages from his sister's account such as "Where are you?" and "I'm worried. Come home," then accessed the account again to send a reply saying, "I'm doing well with my boyfriend. If you look for me, I won't come home at all."

A is also accused of leaving B's body on the rooftop of the apartment for 10 days, then moving it by rental car around the end of December last year to an agricultural waterway in Seokmodo, Samsan-myeon, Ganghwa-gun, Incheon, where he abandoned it. B's body was discovered by a nearby resident on the afternoon of the 21st, four months after being discarded in the waterway.

During police questioning, he stated that "(On the day of the crime) I came home after work at dawn, and after arguing because my sister came home late, I killed her impulsively with a weapon," indicating it was a spontaneous act.

Regarding why he abandoned the body in the waterway and the circumstances of the crime, he said, "I thought there would be no people around because it was winter, and I had relatives living in that area, so I had a connection," and "I didn't realize I stabbed her so severely."

Meanwhile, A appeared for a pre-trial detention hearing (warrant review) at 2 p.m. today. The decision on detention is expected to be made later in the afternoon.

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