2023-11-06 19:17:00
An advertisement for ‘Park Wang-yeol Ice (Philopon)’ posted on the drug sales Telegram room on the 5th. This advertisement included a photo of Park’s face and phrases such as ‘Park Wang-yeol’s ice is currently sweeping the country’ and ‘Park Wang-yeol participated from manufacturing to airlift.’ /Telegram
Police are investigating the fact that ‘drug lord’ Park Wang-yeol (45), who is serving a 60-year prison sentence in the Philippines, is still leading the smuggling of drugs into Korea from prison.
Mr. Park, who appeared on Telegram in 2020 under the nickname ‘Jeonsege’, distributed tens of billions of won worth of drugs from Southeast Asia, including philopon, ecstasy, ketamine, and synthetic marijuana, into the country. It was also said that half of the drugs from Southeast Asia entering the country go through Mr. Park. Mr. Park is currently in prison in the Philippines following being convicted of murder.
The police are said to have secured evidence that Mr. Park is still directing the smuggling of drugs into the country through Telegram while in prison and is connected to domestic and foreign organizations. It has been reported that the police believe it is highly likely that Mr. Park is using a cell phone in a Philippine prison. A police official said, “We are investigating Mr. Park from various angles.”
The police noted that several nicknames that Mr. Park used on Telegram, including ‘Worldwide,’ were still active. In fact, on the 5th, our reporter entered a Telegram room set up for drug sales and found that ‘Park Wang-yeol Ice (Philopon)’ was being sold. The seller displayed a photo of Mr. Park’s face and advertised that “Park Wang-yeol Ice is currently sweeping the country” and that “Park Wang-yeol participates from manufacturing to delivery.”
When I asked the Telegram nickname ‘Jeonsege’ if this promotional post was true, he replied, “It is true.” ‘Jeonsege’ said, “If you send me a coin, I will give you the coordinates to throw it (a method of hiding drugs in a specific place),” and “I will receive 400,000 won per coin.” He also said, “Delivery to Seoul is also possible.”
The police also believe that an organization linked to Mr. Park is active in the Philippines and Korea. In fact, the Gyeongnam Police Agency arrested three people in their 20s who received drugs from Mr. Park last April and distributed them domestically. According to the police investigation, following meeting Mr. Park, who was imprisoned in a Philippine prison in December of last year, they received drugs that had already been smuggled into the country and re-distributed them. Kim Dae-gyu, head of the drug crime investigation unit at the Gyeongnam Police Agency, said, “It is presumed that there is a group of people who smuggle large amounts of drugs into the country under Mr. Park’s instructions, store them in a warehouse that is not visible to the outside world, and then distribute them within the country.” He added, “Mr. Park has a Telegram ID. “We use several of them in turns, and the location of the warehouse changes frequently, so tracking is not easy,” he said.
Graphics = Yang Jin-kyung
Taking these circumstances into consideration, the police are said to believe that the nickname ‘Jeonsege’, who is currently active on Telegram, is Mr. Park, who is in a Philippine prison. Mr. Park first came into the police investigation network in January 2021. At that time, the Gyeongnam Police Agency arrested regarding 90 people in Korea who were supplying and selling drugs. Mr. Park was the person who smuggled the drugs they distributed into the country through international couriers. He was found to have sent 4.9 billion won worth of drugs, including 640 grams of Philopon, into the country over a period of eight months from April 2020.
It was discovered that Mr. Park, who was still incarcerated at the time, acted as a middleman who supplied drugs from a Southeast Asian drug organization and then passed them on to domestic drug dealers. A police official said, “It was estimated that there were regarding 10 organizations that supplied drugs to Mr. Park, but only one organization was revealed. If the transaction amount with one organization is regarding 5 billion won, it means that more than 50 billion won worth of drugs were smuggled into the country annually.” did.
Mr. Park was not a drug dealer from the beginning. He was imprisoned in a Philippine prison following being arrested on charges of shooting three Koreans to death in a sugarcane field in the Philippines in October 2016. It is presumed that he learned how to distribute drugs in prison. He is said to have been in contact in prison with Sara Kim (48), who was called the ‘Southeast Asian drug kingpin’ at the time.
Mr. Park escaped from prison twice, and appears to have started dealing drugs immediately following the second escape. Police believe that Mr. Park, who escaped local police and disappeared for a year following escaping from prison in October 2019, distributed large quantities of drugs domestically through Telegram while on the run. Mr. Park was arrested once more by Philippine police in October 2020. In May last year, the Philippine Supreme Court upheld a lengthy 60-year prison sentence for Mr. Park on murder charges.
An official from the assessment authority said, “We are also considering using the ‘temporary extradition system’ for Mr. Park, which allows criminals serving sentences in foreign countries to be brought into the country for investigation and trial.”
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