Kim Yong-Tae, Park Jong-Suk, An Wi-Joon, and Lee Jae-Kwon have been indicted by a US grand jury for trying to sell $1 million-worth of counterfeit US dollars originating in China. Three of them were arrested by the police in Busan, South Korea while negotiating a deal to sell the fake cash. Lee Jae-Kwon escaped, but surrendered later. Each of them faces up to 25 years in prison and $500,000 fine. South Korea's northern neighbor is suspected by the US to be one of the world's largest counterfeitors of US currency.
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