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Search intensifies for ferry operator owners
By Ko Dong-hwan
Yoo Dae-kyun
By Ko Dong-hwan
Prosecutors are intensifying their search for members of the family that owns the operator of the Sewol ferry, which sank last month killing hundreds of people including school children. With the search becoming a national spectacle, investigators say they are receiving a large number of calls from civilians claiming to have spotted Yoo Dae-kyun.
Yoo, 44, is one of the major shareholders of Cheonghaejin Marine, founded by his reclusive father Yoo Boo-eun, 73, who investigators are also seeking to arrest.
Prosecutors are guarding against the possibility that Yoo finds a way to leave the country and are strengthening border controls at ports such as Incheon and Paengmok in Jindo, South Jeolla Province, which is near where the ferry sank.
With Yoo remaining elusive, investigators are eagerly awaiting for civilian tip offs and have been moving with urgency on even weak information. A team of prosecutors and police officers raided a farm in Cheongsnog, North Gyeongsang Province, after being contacted by an area resident who believed he saw Yoo, but he wasn’t there.
Prosecutors have already requested the National Police Agency to reward and promote policemen who eventually nabs Yoo.