30. Death of Mr. Cho Hee-Pal

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Today is June 28, 2016. Tuesday. Korean Prosecutors’ Office announced today that the death of Mr. Cho Hee-pal was confirmed and it is concluded that Prosecutors have no right of arraignment due to his death. His case was called by the Korea’s largest-ever fraud case. Mr. Cho was the mastermind behind it. He has been at large since 2008 and was suspected of swindling about 4 trillion won which is equivalent to 3.5 billion dollars from an estimated 50,000 Korean people. During the announcement, Prosecutors’ Office presented some evidences related to his death but the mass media and lots of people including the victims of swindles seems hardly to believe them. According to the media reports in the past, a lot of high ranking politicians and senior officials of Police Department and Prosecutors’ Office got involved in Mr. Cho’s fraud case so that there would be huge social and political ramifications if he is captured alive. Basically I don’t believe the conspiracy theory but it is hard to believe that the announcement of Prosecutors’ Office is trustworthy and is based on the objective facts.