The man who allegedly embezzled more than 4 million dollars and had plastic surgery to evade capture has been arrested after a hostess bar spending spree in Gangnam.
The 33-year-old, identified as Yoon, was finally tracked down after two of his accomplices were arrested, police said on Friday.
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The head of the accounting department at a semi-conductor manufacturer, Yoon allegedly transferred 4.7 billion won (4.3 million dollars) of company funds to a series of secret bank accounts, police said.
Feigning a family emergency, he left the company in early January and is accused of withdrawing much of the cash and going on a 10-day binge in Gangnam. He's said to have spent hundreds of millions of won in high-class hostess bars and buying a Mercedes-Benz sedan.
Yoon then fled to the southern city of Gwangju where he had extensive plastic surgery to assume a new identity.
Yoon was "a totally different person" when he was take into custody, a police spokeswoman in Asan told AFP.
"He'd had a nose and eye job, and his face had changed drastically," the spokeswoman said.
The Gangnam district has gained recent worldwide fame due to South Korean rapper Psy's Gangnam Style" -- a video parodying the trendy Seoul area which became the first YouTube upload to break a billion views.
