Man Receives 30 Year Prison Sentence for Smuggling 498 kg of Meth into South Korea
That is a lot of meth, hopefully they keep this guy in jail to do his full sentence:
A regional court meted out a 30-year prison term to a man on Thursday on charges of smuggling in 902 kilograms of methamphetamine from Mexico, the biggest amount of drug smuggling ever in South Korea, officials said.
The 38-year-old, whose name was withheld, was accused of bringing in the drugs in December 2019 and July 2020 from Mexico in collusion with an international crime ring.
He and his accomplice allegedly imported the drugs hidden inside helical gears and smuggled 498 kilograms back to Australia, according to court records.
Worth about 3 trillion won (US$2.1 billion) in retail price and enough for 30 million doses, the smuggled drugs mark the biggest ever amount brought into the country in its drug smuggling history.
Yonhap
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“The 38-year-old, whose name was withheld …”
I’m putting 10,000 won on that his name is Kim Pak-lee from Gangbuk.
When the drugs don’t arrive, the cartel will know who failed to deliver, so withholding thw name can only be because the cops are tracing where he got the drugs.
Theere may be a pile of bodies before this is over.
And, 30 years is a long time to be careful in the showers or the prison yard.
Mexican cartel needs 26 months to find a name?
He was an Australian citizen of Korean descent.
I could give all you gawkers his name but it would probably violate a Korean law of some sort.
But, if someone is offering more than the cartels, we can do business.
Just be aware, I know what I have here… so no low-ballers.
I also have his current whereabouts…
…but prison addresses are public record so I realize that is low-value information.
“He was an Australian citizen of Korean descent.”
QED
I’m not sure I follow, Stephen. We all assumed it was a Korean with connections in Oz.
Losing that big of an investment from his supervisor, even if he had already bought it with his money, is going to make him a marked man until he pays it back. Which he can’t do in jail, so they may just decide he’s too much of a risk of being a songbird.
Unless that’s why we’re just now hearing about him and they’ve already stitched up the rest of the social club.
Being a crook sounds like a real low percentage play to me.