Embezzler had plastic surgery, but lure of Gangnam bars leads to his arrest
A South Korean man who embezzled US$4.3 million and had plastic surgery to evade capture has been arrested after a hostess-bar spending spree in Seoul's upmarket Gangnam district.
A South Korean man who embezzled US$4.3 million and had plastic surgery to evade capture has been arrested after a hostess-bar spending spree in Seoul's upmarket Gangnam district.
The 33-year-old was tracked down after two of his accomplices were arrested, police said.
The head of accounting at a semi-conductor manufacturer, the suspect transferred company funds to a series of secret bank accounts, police said.
Feigning a family emergency, he left the company in early January, withdrew much of the cash, and went on a 10-day binge in Gangnam, spending money on high-class hostess bars and buying a Mercedes-Benz.
He'd had a nose and eye job, and his face had changed drastically
Worried that he might be spotted, he went to the southern city of Gwangju, where he had extensive plastic surgery to assume a new identity.
