Crypto fugitive busted in Seoul after tossing cigarette
Police in South Korea have arrested a 60-year-old fugitive behind a $13 million crypto scam after he was stopped for tossing a cigarette butt and tried to bribe his way out of further questioning.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced today that, on Wednesday, authorities stopped a man in Seoul’s Gwanak District after he tried to run away from a cigarette he’d just discarded.
Local outlets report that the man, identified only by his surname “A,” pleaded with police to “let me go just this once” while trying to hail a taxi.
The man refused to give up his ID and told the officers, “I will give you money.”
He then tried to flee the scene and was arrested. After subsequent questioning,…