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“I’ll do it on my own, so trust me once and follow me.”
Last May, the Strong 2 team from the Seongdong Police Station in Seoul.
Inspector Joo-wan Seo was determined by the team members as if he had decided something firmly. At the time, the Strong 2 team had just arrested a gang member in charge of collecting cash from a voice phishing criminal organization. However, for this China-based organization known for having more than a few hundred members, the cash-raising book was just the tip of the iceberg. Inspector Seo wanted to trace the organization to the end and take a look.
Of course, the colleagues around him also wanted to clean up the criminals. But holding them seemed a long way off. Working secretly in China, there was no known organizational structure. However, Inspector Seo said, “I couldn’t give up because the faces of the victims came to mind. I was heading for the ground, but I ran into him.” According to the police, among the hundreds of victims, there was a grandmother who lost her grandson’s college tuition, which she had accumulated over the years, and a young man in his twenties who lost all the savings saved over three years. Seo has been in the homicide class for 22 years, but the voice phishing organization wasn’t easy to go after. First, I started by tracing the accounts of the barely captured cash books. Throughout the night, I checked the details of the transfer one by one and analyzed them to outline the case. Six months after tracking the cash collection book account. In November of last year, the organization scheme was finally revealed little by little. A gang member in China found an account that appears to have received the proceeds of crime. Finally, the account holder, Member A, was caught in the field after finding out that he entered Korea to renew his Chinese visa.
However, the member of the organization was not very happy. I repeated only the parrot excuses to see if I was in case of arrest. Inspector Seo thought it was important to get the suspect’s heart first. First, Mr. A continued to visit the detention center where he was imprisoned and persuaded him. Inspector Seo said, “I believed that if I constantly appealed to my conscience, I would one day confess.” “I kept going and giving honest advice five times, and then I slowly opened my heart.”
Little by little, Mr. A, who was influenced by Inspector Seo, began to open the door of his heart. Later, Mr. A sent a letter to the police officer saying, “Thank you for keeping me awake.” In the various photographs presented, he pointed to each of his colleagues who worked with him. The police tracked down the group’s members and detained them one by one each time they entered Korea. The questioning of Inspector Seo, who had already grasped the reality of the organization, could not even make a difference.
One year and five months of persistent persecution. Seoul’s Seongdong Police Department announced on the 20th: “45 people were arrested per day, pretending to be prosecutors and employees of the Financial Supervision Service, who intercepted a total of 14 billion won from 322 victims and arrested 16 of them. There are only around 22,000 incident records written by Inspector Seo and his colleagues.
Seongdong Police Station Inspector Seo Ju-wan, Second Class Fort
Journalist Hoe-Sung Yang [email protected]
So far, the crimes committed by this voice phishing organization have been enormous. According to the police, from around June 2018 to October last year, he committed a crime by cheating, “Because your account was used for the crime, please leave the money in the account to an employee of the Financial Supervision Service.” . He made a room that looked exactly like the exam room and made a video call with the victim. The organization has offices in seven cities in China, including Beijing and Shanghai, with 170 members identified so far.
However, Inspector Seo said, “It’s still not enough.” Many of the top criminals of the voice phishing organization have also been arrested, but the victims have yet to get their money back. According to the police, there are still many members of the organization in China, and there are also several members who have arrived in Korea and are hiding from the country due to the new coronavirus infection. Inspector Seo also visits their families to appeal to their conscience and persuade them. Several families have even contacted gang members in China to “embroider”.
Seongdong Police Station Inspector Joo-Wan Seo and other police officers
Journalist Hoe-Sung Yang [email protected]
Colleagues describe Inspector Seo as “a highly committed police officer.” Lieutenant Seo’s wife said, “You should have been a religious person, not a detective.” Inspector Seo said, “He wasn’t good at talking, so I tried to address him honestly.” “When I think of the victims, I am satisfied and I cannot rest.”
The tracking of the voice phishing organization continues to this day. Inspector Seo and his colleagues plan to apply to Interpol for the wanted red for suspects who have fled abroad and arrest them through an international cooperative investigation. Inspector Seo said, “The investigation is a struggle between ‘patience’ and ‘perseverance,'” and said, “I will never stop until the last one is arrested.”
Reporter Park Jong-min [email protected]
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