A man in his 20s, identified as A, who was about to board a flight departing for Cambodia, was questioned by police and sent home.
The Incheon Airport Police Unit said on the 17th that it questioned A, who was stopped from leaving for Cambodia, for about three hours and then sent the person home.
Police conducted a spot check at about 6:30 p.m. the previous day in front of the boarding gate at Terminal 2 of Incheon International Airport. A did not properly answer questions about the purpose of departure and said to police, "Why are you stopping me? I have to leave."
At 7:35 p.m. the previous day, a post appeared in a Telegram chat room recruiting "borrowed-name bank accounts" that read, "Failed to depart. For now, I have to cancel two people tomorrow and one person on Sunday."
Police investigated A's connection to this post. To verify whether A wrote it, police asked to see the mobile phone, but A refused. A is said to have told police, "I have never posted anything on Telegram."
Police plan to call in A again to determine whether there are any criminal suspicions.
At about 7 p.m. the previous day, police also stopped a man in his 30s, identified as B, from boarding a flight to Cambodia at Incheon International Airport. B told an officer to the effect that "I quit my main job and was resting, and a younger acquaintance I got to know in the past through Telegram sent me a boarding pass." B was reluctant to disclose the Telegram conversation and could not specify the destination or lodging.
Police plan to conduct additional questioning of B to determine whether there is any actual connection to crime.