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Big drug supplier caught in U.S. to be extradited to S. Korea
- Collected
- 2016.08.30
- Distributed
- 2016.09.01
- Source
- Go Direct
Korean prosecutors recently told reporters a Korean drug supplier operated under the nickname of “Iris” in the U.S. was put in custody in Los Angeles, California around June after one year of consorted investigations and tracing by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). The female criminal, 41, will be extradited to Seoul sometime in September through a formal criminal extradition procedure.
Iris is a notorious dope supplier residing overseas. Seoul prosecutors suspect she had sent drugs worth hundreds of millions of won to Korean drug sellers using chatting apps and international courier services since last year.
Attention is being paid to whether her Korean network of suppliers will be unveiled after her extradition. Prosecutors suspect a Korean drug distributor already detained and indicted had received dopes from Iris. The distributor was sentenced to three years in prison for his selling of narcotics to Korean buyers 200 times from August 2014 to March 2015. Hearings are being held in the Supreme Court.
If convicted, Iris will get tougher sentences than her distributors or clients. “Repeated selling and importing narcotics for commercial purposes is subject to additional punishment. It could lead to death penalty, life imprisonment or 10 years in prison,” said a prosecutor.
By Chung Joo-won
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