KOREAN DRUG LORD, VIP IN JAIL
“If I crack, a lot of prosecutors will quit.”
The suspect, 45-year-old Park Wan-yeol, one of the “three major Korean drug lords in Southeast Asia” who has been smuggling and distributing drugs from the Philippines to Korea, said he will not be extradited to Korea, rather, he showed his bravado by saying, “If I open my mouth, many prosecutors (in Korea) will have to quit.
Park is the suspect in the “Philippine Sugarcane Field Murders,” the motif of the drama “Casino,” and has supplied many drugs to Korea through Telegram. Park, who is listed as one of the so-called “three major Southeast Asian Korean drug lords,” was sentenced by the Philippine Supreme Court in October 2016 for the murder of three Koreans in a sugarcane field in the Philippines (mass murder) to a short term of 57 years and 60 years in prison in the New Bilibid Prison in the Philippines and is currently He is currently imprisoned at the New Bilibid Prison in the Philippines.
According to an interview with JTBC published on the 1st, Park is living a glamorous “VIP” prison life by working as a “drug entrepreneur” in prison. This is because the money he earns from the drug trade allows him to have personal free time and free use of his cell phone.
In an interview that day, Park, who appeared in sunglasses and a beret with silver front teeth shining, told the interviewer that he had no remorse for the charges against him and that he would do the same thing if he had to go back.
He also told the interviewer that he is “heartbroken” for his accomplice, who is currently serving a 30-year sentence in a South Korean prison, but that he “can’t go [to South Korea] rather than wanting to be repatriated. I can’t go there because there is no evidence that I sold drugs,” he said.
Park also said that if he opens his mouth, “there are a lot of people who have to quit as prosecutors (in Korea),” and that “if I talk to them, they will turn me over once I talk to them.
Currently, cases of drug distribution from overseas to Korea via Telegram are being uncovered one after another, but it has been pointed out that there are no special sanctions in place. Drug offenders like Park, who have been sentenced to several decades in Korea, can only be extradited to Korea after serving their sentences there, making it virtually impossible for them to return to Korea.
YAHOO NEWS
2 November 2023
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/8c4c151459af743a4bc3e80d1de6134075963aa9
