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Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap
Seoul, Jan. 30 (Yonhap) - A South Korean court on Friday sentenced a Nigerian drug dealer, who used South Korean travellers to transport narcotics, to life in prison and a fine of 100 million won (US$72,000).
Obioha Frank Chinedu, 42, was convicted last year of trafficking cocaine and hemp through South Koreans, mostly young women.
He fled to China with a forged passport after South Korean prosecutors launched an investigation in 2002, but was arrested at a German airport the following year and then transferred to Denmark. He managed to escape from a Danish prison while awaiting trial in …