By It seems like USFK is actually getting serious about cracking down on the black marketers for once. There have been numerous arrest over the course of this past year. Here are some more arrests that led to one AAFES employee committing suicide:
Seoul Customs Office officials are recommending that 17 South Koreans, including two AAFES employees, be charged with conspiring to evade South Korean tax law in connection with the sale of 56,000 cases of beer from Area I bases to local businesses, according to U.S. and South Korean authorities.
Kwon Ju-sung, of the customs office, said the case was to be filed to the Seoul Central Prosecutors Office on Wednesday, where officials will decide whether to press charges.
Kwon identified the two Army and Air Force Exchange Service employees as 46-year-old Lee, currently in police custody, and a man named Ji.
Kwon said an 18th suspect, whom he identified as an AAFES store manager, died Aug. 1 after jumping from the roof of his apartment building.
These arrests are just a drop in the bucket to a much larger problem with black marketing. I really understood how bad the black marketing problem was here, when I traveled to Ullong-do Island out in the East Sea and a restaurant I ate at had black marketed condiments.
