▲ Daejeon Credit Union robber Mr. Gil visited a casino to gamble in Danang, Vietnam.
Provided by Daejeon Police Agency It was revealed that Mr. Gil (47, unemployed), a Daejeon Credit Union robber who was caught after fleeing to Vietnam, committed robbery when he was harassed by debt demands after gambling for 4.1 billion won.
Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office Criminal Division 3 (Chief Cho Jae-cheol) announced on the 16th that Mr. Gil was arrested and indicted on charges of aggravated robbery and habitual gambling.
According to the prosecution, Mr. Gil gambled a total of 4.124 billion won on 4,651 occasions on illegal internet gambling sites such as ‘Baccarat’ and ‘Toto’ without a clear job from January 2021 to last August, and went bankrupt in the process. At an early stage, he owed hundreds of millions of won to acquaintances and robbed a credit union when he was asked to repay the debt.
A prosecution official said, “Mr. Gil’s claim that he committed the crime spontaneously to repay business debt and raise living expenses is false.”
At approximately 11:58 a.m. on August 18, Mr. Gil entered the Mandarin Branch of Gubong Credit Union in Gwanjeo-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon wearing a helmet, hat, and mask, sprayed fire extinguisher powder, threatened employees with a prepared weapon, and stole 39 million won before riding a motorcycle. ran away At the time, there were two employees at the credit union, and when the male employee went to the bathroom, he threatened the female employee with a weapon and fled with cash in a hiking bag he had previously taken. He arrived at Geumsan, South Chungcheong Province, 50km away on a motorcycle, abandoned the motorcycle, and took a taxi back to Daejeon to avoid pursuit through a complicated escape.
Mr. Gil fled to Vietnam on a flight to Da Nang at 11:05 a.m. on August 20, two days after the crime, and gambled at a casino. He was arrested by local public security at 4:55 p.m. (local time) on the 10th and returned to Korea on the 21st. I was repatriated.
The prosecution confirmed that Mr. Gil had a serious gambling addiction, to the extent that he accessed illegal Internet gambling sites immediately after arriving in Vietnam, and also charged him with habitual gambling.
Reporter Lee Cheon-yeol in Daejeon
2023-10-16 02:32:49
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