Police Provided the Suspect's Location, Yet Let Them Slip Away Right Before Their Eyes

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■ Broadcast: SBS "News Hunters" Mon–Fri ( 18:50–19:50)
■ Anchors: Kim Jong-won, Yoon Tae-jin
■ Guests: Oh Yoon-sung (Professor, Department of Police Administration, Soonchunhyang University), Lee Kyung-min (Attorney)
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Is this what they mean by "spoiling a nearly finished meal"?
A victim managed to track down a suspect that the police had failed to find and asked officers to make an arrest after providing their location, but the police simply let the suspect go.
We take a closer look at this absurd situation that left the victim infuriated.

- Victim entrusts business funds to an employee
- Employee disappears with 5 million won in company funds
- Victim provides the suspect's address to the police
- Victim tracks down the suspect personally and lures them to Seoul
- Victim informs a neighborhood police substation and requests an arrest
- Suspect provides the victim's name and resident registration number during a check
- Police rely solely on the resident registration number without secondary verification
- Suspect vanishes again… Victim tracks them down once more
- Victim says police told them to "report directly to the Busan police"

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※ Please note: This article was translated by AI and may contain errors.