Obioha Frank Chinedu, 41,handed over to the Korean government at Incheon International Airport, the Ministry of Justice said. The extradition was initially designed to help reduce the prison terms of Koreans imprisoned in Britain, the Netherlands, Brazil and Japan, who were accomplices of Chinedu, but due to delays in the extradition process, all had already finished their prison terms and returned to Korea. The ministry said that the 10 Korean women and two Korean men caught and sent to foreign prisons while delivering drugs, did not know what they were carrying. The government has long attempted to prove the Koreans were victims of the drug smuggling.Chinedu, the leader of an international drug ring, and known to speak eight languages including Korean and English, opened a bogus company in Itaewon, Seoul in the early 2000s, according to police.Passing himself off as an American businessman, he used young Koreans to deliver cocaine and marijuana, which he got from Thailand and Brazil, to drug traffickers in Netherlands, Denmark, Britain and Japan. They simply believed they were getting a free trip to a foreign country in return for the delivery of ``clothing samples.'' He has been on the Korean police wanted list since 2002. He fled the country and moved to Europe in 2006 after six of his gang members were arrested and police put him on the list. He was arrested in Germany in October 2003 and transferred to a prison in Denmark. However, he escaped from the prison in May 2004. He smuggled himself into Nigeria and started to teach Korean before traveling to China to resume his business. He was arrested there and placed in a prison until now. The Korean government requested the Chinese government extradite him and the Chinese court accepted the request last October. Obioha Frank Chinedu, 41, over to the Korean government at Incheon International Airport, the Ministry of Justice said. The extradition was initially designed to help reduce the prison terms of Koreans imprisoned in Britain, the Netherlands, Brazil and Japan, who were accomplices of Chinedu, but due to delays in the extradition process, all had already finished their prison terms and returned to Korea. The ministry said that the 10 Korean women and two Korean men caught and sent to foreign prisons while delivering drugs, did not know what they were carrying.
The government has long attempted to prove the Koreans were victims of the drug smuggling.Chinedu, the leader of an international drug ring, and known to speak eight languages including Korean and English, opened a bogus company in Itaewon, Seoul in the early 2000s, according to police.Passing himself off as an American businessman, he used young Koreans to deliver cocaine and marijuana, which he got from Thailand and Brazil, to drug traffickers in Netherlands, Denmark, Britain and Japan. They simply believed they were getting a free trip to a foreign country in return for the delivery of ``clothing samples.'' He has been on the Korean police wanted list since 2002. He fled the country and moved to Europe in 2006 after six of his gang members were arrested and police put him on the list. He was arrested in Germany in October 2003 and transferred to a prison in Denmark. However, he escaped from the prison in May 2004.
He smuggled himself into Nigeria and started to teach Korean before traveling to China to resume his business. He was arrested there and placed in a prison until now. The Korean government requested the Chinese government extradite him and the Chinese court accepted the request last October.
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