Columbo to Woo-suk Hwang: Don't Leave Town

AP reports that South Korean prosecutors have stopped Woo-suk Hwang's collaborators from fleeing leaving the country. It is starting to look like CSI:

Prosecutors raided eight more offices of Hwang's former associates, a day after they searched Hwang's home in southern Seoul, said Hong Man-pyo, the prosecutor in charge of the criminal investigation.

Dr. Hwang though is the picture of class, making sure to put the blame right where it belongs: on his junior scientists (kind of like the ones the ones he coerced into donating eggs?)

Disgraced researcher Hwang Woo Suk asked forgiveness Thursday from fellow South Koreans for his fraudulent claims of human stem cell breakthroughs, but blamed the scandal on junior researchers who he said deceived him.