SEOUL - A man in South Korea was found to have hidden his dead father’s body inside a freezer for over a year due to unspecified inheritance issues, local police said on Nov 3.

       Officials at the Icheon Police Station in Gyeonggi province are investigating the man, who is in his 40s, for violation of Article 161 of the Criminal Act, which covers damaging, destroying, concealing or taking possession of a corpse.

       The suspect turned himself in on Nov 1 to local police, who found the body of the dead man inside the suspect’s home.

       The suspect visited the father’s home in September 2023 and found that the older man had died. In order to hide the death, the son hid the body in a freezer at his home.

       He told police that he committed the crime due to “inheritance issues”. Officials did not elaborate on the matter, as the case is under investigation.

       Investigators did not find any evidence that the suspect had killed his father or defiled the body in any way.

       Police will request the National Forensic Service for an autopsy of the body to determine the exact cause and time of death. THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK

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