Police Near Completion of Investigation into 'Gangnam Kidnapping and Murder'... "Victim's Husband Also Targeted"

The police investigation has entered its final stage as the couple Yoo Sang-won and Hwang Eun-hee, identified as the masterminds behind the Gangnam kidnapping and murder case, have been sent to prosecution in custody. According to the police investigation, the suspects were found to have conspired not only to kill the victim but also the victim's husband.

Wealthy couple Yoo Sang-won and Hwang Eun-hee, suspected to be behind the abduction and murder of a woman in her 40s in Gangnam, Seoul, are being transferred from Seoul Suseo Police Station to the prosecution on the morning of the 13th.
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On the 13th, the Seoul Suseo Police Station sent the couple Yoo and Hwang to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in custody around 8 a.m. on charges of robbery murder and attempted murder. Yoo Sang-won, who appeared wearing dark clothes and covering his face, responded to reporters' questions such as "Is it true that Lee Kyung-woo proposed the crime?" and "Why did you send 70 million won to Lee Kyung-woo?" by saying he was "unfairly accused." Hwang Eun-hee remained silent.

The police announced that they changed the charges against the couple Yoo and Hwang from "instigating robbery murder" to "robbery murder." The police's position is that considering the circumstances and roles in the crime, they are judged as joint principals, so the charge needed to be changed. Lee Kyung-woo, Hwang Dae-han, and Yeon Ji-ho, who directly carried out the kidnapping and murder and secretly buried the body, are also charged with robbery murder. However, Lee Kyung-woo, Hwang Dae-han, and Yeon Ji-ho are also charged with abandoning a corpse.

It was also investigated that the five suspects?Yoo and Hwang couple, Lee Kyung-woo, Hwang Dae-han, and Yeon Ji-ho?had prepared to kill the victim's husband, Mr. A. Mr. A is also known to have been involved in cryptocurrency-related investment business. Accordingly, the police added the charge of "attempted murder" against the five suspects.

The charges against Lee Kyung-woo's wife, Mrs. B, were also added. Based on the fact that Mrs. B stole anesthetics from a plastic surgery clinic located in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, where she worked, and considering her degree of involvement in providing them, the police applied additional charges of "aiding and abetting robbery murder and theft." Previously, Mrs. B had been booked on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act and was sent to prosecution without detention on the same day.

Meanwhile, it was revealed that the anesthetics stolen by Mrs. B were the cause that led to the victim's death. According to the autopsy results from the National Forensic Service, the cause of death was anesthetic component poisoning. On the 29th of last month, the victim was kidnapped in front of an apartment in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, and is presumed to have died due to excessive injection of anesthetics. Although Hwang Dae-han and Yeon Ji-ho gave conflicting statements regarding their degree of involvement in the crime, it was recently reported that Hwang Dae-han testified during police questioning that he injected the anesthetics into the victim.

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