Anchor: Prosecutors have arrested six members of a religious group led by the man who is also known to be the owner of the sunken Sewol ferry. Some 20 days have passed since the search began for the fugitive who is suspected to be responsible for the deadly sinking and financially able to compensate the victims and their families. 
Our Kim Bum-soo has more.
 
Report: Prosecutors on Wednesday morning mobilized some six-thousand police to raid the head temple of the Evangelical Baptist Church.
 
By late afternoon, the prosecution arrested six people, including the five suspected of harboring and assisting the fugitive owner of the ill-fated Sewol ferry, who is also the leader of the Christian cult.
 
It has been over 20 days since an all-out hunt began for Yoo Byung-eon in his 70s.
 
In front of the Geumsuwon temple complex in Gyeonggi Province, a former spokesman of the religious group held a news conference. With some 100 religious group members guarding the front gate, he urged prosecutors to focus instead on finding out the cause of the Sewol sinking. 
 
The believers also urged the prosecution to stop suppressing their religion, but eventually opened the door to the police who presented search and arrest warrants.
 
Some 400 prosecutors and police combed through the main auditorium of the temple to find the religious members on the wanted list for helping Yoo. They focused on identifying around ten key figures, which include members the cult group calls Mommy Shin in her mid-60s and Mommy Kim in her late 50s. 
 
The two members are suspected of informing Yoo of developments in the prosecution’s investigation. 
 
Police sources said an aide of Yoo has contacted a criminal organization, offering ten billion won, or almost 10 million U.S. dollars, for smuggling a group of five into a foreign country. The police are now working on searching for a hideout in South Jeolla Province where Yoo may be waiting to catch a ship out of Korea.
Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News.