Korean fugitive captured in Los Angeles area returned to South Korea Target allegedly perpetrated $100 million fraud scheme
LOS ANGELES - A South Korean national wanted in his native country for a fraud scheme that cost victims more than $100 million was turned over to South Korean law enforcement representatives at the airport in Seoul Wednesday by officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Korean National Police Agency. Korean fugitive captured Kyochung Lee returned to Seoul, South Korea Kyochung Lee was returned to South Korea by commercial aircraft, accompanied by officers from the ICE's Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and the Korean National Police Agency. The 55-year-old is the subject of an Interpol fugitive notice published in Feb. that alleges he defrauded unspecified victims of the equivalent of $116 million in U.S. currency. According to the Interpol notice, the fraud occurred in 2006. The Seoul Central Public Prosecutor's Office, which is handling the case, issued a warrant for Lee's arrest in Feb. 2010. Two months later, ICE databases i...