Immigration Begins Search For Wanted Korean is not in Costa Rica
Despite a comment by the Director de Migración, Mario Zamora, that there are no records that Seok Jung Myung entered Costa Rica, the immigration service is conducting a search of the Guanacaste area following reports that he may be in Costa Rica under the protection of the Chinese mafia.

And despite that Myung is being wanted worldwide, the Costa Rican INTERPOL department says it has not received an "official" capture order for the man.

Myung has been spotted around the world in places like China, Taiwan and Italy and is rumoured to have made his way into Costa Rica by way of Mexico and Guatemala, using a Japanese passport.

Immigration officials are concentrating their efforts in the Pacific beach areas of Coco, Tamarindo, Flamingo and Nicoya, where Myung could easily hide out.

Given the strong suspicions that Myung is in Central America and more particularly Costa Rica, Costa Rican authorities are not taking this lightly and are working effortlessly to verify or deny the rumours.

"We have no reliable indication that this person entered the country", said Zamora on Tuesday, adding that if he is Costa Rica, Myung  is not travelling alone, accompanied by parishioners as is the custom of leaders of sects.

Myung is on the Interpol wanted list for the sexual violation of members of his sect.