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Lime Fund Repurchaser Lee Jong-pil, former vice president of Lime Asset Management and Kim Bong-hyun, former star chairman Kim Jong-pil, were arrested last night on the police last night. It is expected that the investigation into suspicion of lobbying for political relations for the event's murder, along with alleged fund mismanagement, will also accelerate.

Reporter Jung Yun-sik reports.

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Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency arrested Lee Jong-pil, former vice president of Lime Asset Management, who was hiding in a villa in Seongbuk-gu last night.

Former Vice President Lee is the key figure who led the operation and planning of the Lime Fund and caused the fund to be repurchased to KRW 1.6 trillion.

The police also caught Kim Bong-hyun, former chairman of Star Mobility, who was hiding in the villa where the former vice president was hiding, and Sim Mo, who is known as a fund sales practitioner.

Chairman Kim had previously fled for nearly four months after the police filed for a warrant for arresting 16.1 billion won from a bus company, Suwon, at the end of December last year.

The police formed a group of 20 professional arrest teams, and went on an arrest operation yesterday evening after a few days of incubation.

Former vice president and chairman Kim are known to have resisted strongly during the arrest.

Chairman Kim is the first known person in the world to appear as the 'Chairman' to solve the Lime situation in the recording file reported by SBS last month.

Kim was further charged with extorting Kim Jong-un, a former Blue House executive, who was arrested, and receiving information about the FSS test for a 50 million won bribe.

Police are investigating their specific escaping process and are considering applying for a warrant and handing over the recruits to the prosecution.

As two key figures of the Lime crisis are arrested, the suspicion that the alleged mismanagement of the Lime fund and the lobbying of the prosecution's political relationship for murdering the case are expected to take a rapid turn.