Overview
- As of 9 a.m. Monday, courts nationwide had issued arrest warrants for 55 of the 73 returnees following last week’s charter flight repatriation.
- Seventeen additional suspects linked to alleged romance scams were scheduled for warrant hearings Monday afternoon in South Chungcheong Province.
- Prosecutors sought warrants for 72 of the 73 suspects, with one excluded after officials deemed the alleged offense minor.
- Investigators attribute 48.6 billion won in losses to schemes that victimized 869 people, including no-show scams and impersonation operations.
- Those arrested include 49 accused no-show scammers and a couple alleged to have used deepfake tactics to steal 12 billion won from 104 people, while another suspect previously received a warrant over an alleged 19.4 billion won call-center fraud.