The son of the South Korean ferry owner Yoo Byung-un who was also wanted on suspicion of embezzlement, was captured in an apartment near Seoul, prosecutors said, according to The Associated Press.
Yoo Dae-gyun was picked up from an office south of Seoul along with a woman accused of helping his fugitive life, Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency said, the AP reported.
Yoo is a major shareholder in Chonghaejin Marine Co., the operator of the ferry that sank in April, according to the AP. His father had founded the predecessor of Chonghaejin.
Yoo Dae-gyun's capture follows the arrests of several other family members, including the senior Yoo's wife and brother, the AP reported.
Yoo Dae-gyun is one of two sons who co-owned the holding company at the center of a network of business interests that included the ferry operator, but he was not believed to have been as actively involved in management as his younger brother, who is believed to be in the United States, according to the AP.
The junior Yoo said he had learned of his father's death from police just a few moments before and chided reporters: "How would you feel when your parent had died," the AP reported.
Media reports said he had had no access to phones or the Internet in the cramped apartment on the outskirts of Seoul where he had been staying since the accident, according to the AP.
The failure by the national forensic agency to determine how Yoo died, and how his body arrived at the spot where it was found, is likely to add pressure on authorities to arrest two other close associates accused of aiding his flight, the AP reported.
A senior prosecutor who headed the investigation resigned on Thursday, claiming responsibility for botched moves that allowed Yoo to remain at large for so long, according to the AP.
Three police officers, including the provincial chief of the region where his body was found, were sacked this week, the AP reported.
