The 42-year-old, who won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was questioned by Seoul police on Monday, Nov. 6, over possible involvement in her former fiancé's fraud charges.
SEOUL -- Olympic silver medalist Nam Hyun-hee has been barred from leaving South Korea, police said on Tuesday, Nov. 7, as a high-profile fraud probe into her ex-fiancé drags in the former fencer.
Nam's former fiancé, Jeon Cheong-jo, was arrested last week on charges of swindling at least 15 people out of 1.9 billion won . A police station in the Songpa district of Seoul told AFP that Nam was subject to a travel ban as part of the ongoing investigation.The case first came to public attention last month when Nam announced her engagement, giving a magazine interview with her fiancé in which they said Jeon was the son of a wealthy family in the casino industry.
Underlining how the case has captivated South Korea, mangled English and Korean phrases used in leaked text messages sent by the fiancé to Nam have become top-trending memes online.
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