Customs officials find suspected smuggled goods at Korean Air's subcontractor
SEJONG, May 21 (Yonhap) -- Customs authorities said Monday its officials raided a subcontractor of Korean Air Lines Co. and found 2.5 tons of suspected smuggled goods, as the airline's founding family faces a probe for illegally bringing in luxury goods.
The Korea Customs Service (KCS) has been looking into allegations that Korean Air Chairman Cho Yang-ho's family smuggled certain goods without paying due taxes while reportedly disguising them as corporate assets.
It was not immediately known what the suspected smuggled goods are.
The subcontractor supplies in-flight meals to Korean Air, according to KCS officials.
The Cho family has been under a series of investigations after the chairman's youngest daughter, Cho Hyun-min, a former executive of Korean Air, was accused of allegedly assaulting ad agency officials.
Hyun-min is the younger sister of Cho Hyun-ah, who gained global notoriety for the "nut rage" incident in 2014. She forced a plane back to the boarding gate at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport because she was upset with the way her nuts were served -- in an unopened bag instead of on a plate.
Smuggling is an offense that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and fines up to 10 times the duties evaded.
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