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“What's important to note is that at some point before discovering Heo as missing, He or more likely somebody else had sent her a text message telling her to cancel her flight home. The text also said that he would fly to China and join her instead. Clearly, whoever was behind this knew about his family affairs and tried to cover all bases.”

“Well, in there, people are sold. You are slaves in there. What really disturbed me was how systematized it was, the brutality.”

“As of today, one has offered a reward of up to $250,000 to any leads that either bring his father home safe and sound, or identification, arrest, and conviction of those who took his father, destroyed his home, stole his life savings, and tore a family apart. I will continue to monitor this case as it progresses, and although we are already a year in, I won't lose hope.”

“This predatory industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. And it's growing fast. It's probably bigger than the illegal drug trade. Behind it is a dystopian criminal underworld, of forced labor, corruption and intrigue.”

“Early May happened to be Hou's birthday, and because he had declined via text to visit Wen and his family, Wen decided to send a present to his father. It was handmade Chinese noodles. On the day of his father's birthday, Wen tried calling, and his calls all went unanswered. When he texted to ask if his father had received the gift, all he got was a, quote, yes, I receive it, unquote. Not even a thank you.”

“But, He was not home. In fact, the house was nearly empty. Personal items, furniture, even the kitchen utensil drawers had been emptied out. The property was almost entirely cleaned out. Someone had left paint buckets, and parts of the walls had random sloppy paint jobs, as if done in a hurry.”

“They had these slogans that would always chant before we'd start to work every day, and it was something like cripple the US and the European economy.”

“To a small town in rural Kansas, where $47 million went missing from the local bank. What do you mean something's wrong with the bank? We never have problems. Over several months, the bank's CEO had quietly put most of the bank's money into some sort of cryptocurrency investment, until the board called him in to explain himself.”

“They're essentially the law enforcement. They're the government.”

“I am not rich enough to understand this, but apparently, you can also purchase gold bars online from your savings account, and that's what the police found. That Ho, or whoever was using his phone, had purchased cryptocurrency and gold bars worth over $1,000,000. According to one, quote, he has never bought gold in his life. He is not an online savvy person.”

“As for when, he has a suspicion set on a few contractors that worked at his parents' home earlier that year. I don't like jumping to conclusions, but this is also not unheard of. People come and do work at your house. Maybe they see that you are well off. Maybe they found out his son is basically a crypto guru and heard about his multi million dollar home purchase. So, they come up with a plan, and since you're technically not complete strangers, they use it as their way to snake into your house.”