The Bernie Madoff of Korea is Alleged to Have Faked His Death

With the amount of money this guy was able to fraud people out of, it seems it would be really easy for him to bribe people to fake his death:

The purported death of Cho Hee-pal, the mastermind behind South Korea’s largest-ever fraud case, returned to the spotlight as his close aide was arrested in China last week, with fresh testimonies suggesting he is actually still alive.

Cho is one of the most-wanted conmen in South Korea, having allegedly scammed up to 50,000 people out of an estimated 4 trillion won ($3.5 billion) in a pyramid marketing scheme.

The purported death of Cho Hee-pal, the mastermind behind South Korea’s largest-ever fraud case, returned to the spotlight as his close aide was arrested in China last week, with fresh testimonies suggesting he is actually still alive.

Cho is one of the most-wanted conmen in South Korea, having allegedly scammed up to 50,000 people out of an estimated 4 trillion won ($3.5 billion) in a pyramid marketing scheme.  [Korea Herald]

You can read the rest at the link, but just think the $3.5 billion this guy swindled people out of is nothing compared to the $18 billion Bernie Madoff swindle people out of the in the US.  At least Madoff is sitting in jail unlike Cho who likely still living freely in China.

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MTB Rider
9 years ago

Repetitive article tended to repeat itself in a repetitive manner.

I also noticed that the article tended to say the same thing more than once.

Am I the only one to notice that the article was somewhat repetitive from time to time, and presented the same information over and over?

CH, back me up here. Did the article repeat itself from one paragraph to the next?

Maybe I should ask CH to check if the article was repetitive.

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ChickenHead
9 years ago

MTB Rider,

Your mistake is in thinking it is an article.

It is actually a song… The Ballad of the Bernie Madoff of Korea Who is Alleged to Have Faked His Death.

Let’s sing the chorus together…

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
“Cho is one of the most-wanted conmen in South Korea,
having allegedly scammed up to 50,000 people
out of an estimated 4 trillion won ($3.5 billion)
in a pyramid marketing scheme.”
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

The “($3.5 billion)” is for the background singers.

…a rather nice arrangement vocally, but a little thin on the rhyming.

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