Brother of Korea ferry disaster fugitive arrested

South Korean police yesterday arrested a younger brother of the country’s most wanted man, a businessman linked to a ferry disaster in which hundreds of school children drowned, as authorities cast a wide net for the fugitive’s family.

Yoo Byung-ho was arrested on suspicion of embezzlement, a prosecution official said.

Prosecutors and police are seeking Yoo Byung-un, 73, who has eluded one of the country’s biggest manhunts for more than a month. They have arrested his wife, younger sister and her husband, a former ambassador to the Czech Republic.