Police on Saturday sought arrest warrants for all 73 South Korean suspects repatriated from Cambodia over alleged involvement in online scam operations, officials said. The warrants were filed a day after the suspects, who had been detained in Cambodia, were brought home Friday on a chartered flight to face investigation. It marked the nation’s largest repatriation of criminal suspects from a single country. The suspects are accused of swindling a combined 48.6 billion won ($33.1 million) from 869 South Korean victims. They were immediately placed under custody after boarding the plane with court-issued warrants and transferred to local police agencies nationwide for further investigation. Among the suspects, 70 of them are accused of participation in online fraud activities, such as romance scams, while the remaining three face charges of robbery by hostage and gambling. One of them is accused of fleeing to Cambodia and engaging in scams after allegedly committing a sexual crime against a minor, while another is suspected of keeping a victim hostage at a criminal compound and extorting m
