South Korean "luxury addict" stole $1.4 million: police
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South Korean police are seeking a 26-year-old woman on suspicion of embezzling about $1.4 million to fund a craving for designer shoes, bags and clothes, a spokesman said on Friday.
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South Korea's spy agency confessed on Wednesday to the most notorious kidnapping in the country's history, saying that in 1973 it snatched opposition leader and later Nobel laureate Kim Dae-jung in Tokyo.
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Contraband that went missing after being seized by customs officers is confirmed as 1.5kg of cocaine.
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A dealer of antique treasures who admitted stealing more than $3 million (1.6 million pounds) in rare maps was resentful of the world's top libraries and acted to finance his rich tastes and rising debt, prosecutors said on Thursday.
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South Korean prosecutors probing corruption accusations against the giant Samsung Group said on Friday they had narrowed their focus down to around 400 accounts that might be linked to an alleged slush fund.
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A crew controlled by the Crips street gang made $1 million a year dealing drugs that were sometimes delivered in toy cars and trucks, authorities said.
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Prosecutors said that the hip-hop music producer and record executive Irv Gotti had aided a friend in concealing more than $1 million in illicit narcotics proceeds.
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Letter: Reporter was basically receiving stolen property.
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A South Korean man was arrested and  charged with spying for South Korea and obtaining information  from North Korea in return for payments, U.S. officials said on  Thursday.
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A gang targeting diplomats and wealthy individuals - including socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson - exported more than Â£1.5m worth of stolen cars to the Middle East in a 'highly sophisticated' ringing operation
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Police say a man has confessed to starting the fire that destroyed South Korea's greatest cultural treasure.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, March 13 Kyodo - The Tokyo District Court sentenced a pleasure boat operator to 13 years in prison Tuesday for smuggling a large amount of amphetamine stimulant drugs from North Korea in 2002 in conspiracy with accomplices.
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Police seized Paris Hilton's  $190,000 Bentley after the heiress was caught driving on a  suspended license, and prosecutors vowed on Wednesday to ask a  judge to revoke her probation for reckless driving.
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Kenyan police seized cocaine with an  estimated street value of $65 million -- a record for the  country -- and said on Wednesday smugglers had been trying to  move the drug from Colombia to Europe.
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One of South Korea's richest men is given a suspended jail sentence over his conviction for a revenge beating.
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The head of the hip-hop music label  behind top-selling artists Ashanti and Ja Rule was charged on  Wednesday with laundering more than $1 million in drug money  through his record company, The Inc.
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Four men were arrested in connection with the case, the police said.