Police to Conduct Intensive Crackdown on International Crimes from April to July

Published 03 Apr.2023 06:00(KST)

Crackdown on Violence, Investment Fraud, Gambling, and More

The National Police Agency's National Investigation Headquarters announced that it will intensively crack down on international criminals for three months from the 3rd of this month to July 2nd.

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The police will target professional crimes such as immigration offenses and illegal foreign exchange transactions, which are the main investigation targets of the international crime investigation teams of the metropolitan and provincial police agencies, as well as general crimes committed by foreign residents such as robbery, violence, investment fraud, and gambling, and organized crimes such as the formation of criminal groups and organizations.

The police plan to form a joint investigation team to actively respond from the early stages of incidents. They will also block the flow of criminal proceeds into organizational funds through pre-indictment seizure and confiscation preservation, and thoroughly prevent the domestic inflow of overseas criminal organizations by identifying their backers through international cooperation with Interpol.

The police stated, "We plan to proactively respond to international crimes by continuously strengthening crackdowns and intelligence gathering on crimes related to foreigners based on cooperation with related agencies. We also provide rewards for reporting international crimes and strictly guarantee the identity of informants, so we ask for active cooperation."