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Jailed South Korean Exec Says Citizen Kim Set Him Up
posted (December 11, 2014)
Kim Won-Hong, we call him Citizen Kim and in 2013 his became the epicenter of political agitation in Belize - after he was corruptly issued with a Belize passport while he was in a Taiwanese jail.

Today his name was being called in Seoul, South Korea by the former chairman of a wealthy company called SK Group. Chey Tae-won lost his appeal in that country's courts. He claimed that Won Hong Kim was the main culprit behind the embezzlement of 45 million US dollars.

Won-hong, who was a former advisor to the company was found guilty as an accomplice to embezzlement.

He was being held in Taiwan pending extradition to SOUTH KOREA when - through the use of still unknown agents - he managed to get a Belizean passport to try to slip out of custody.

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