November 28, 1984: FBI Holds 6 in Kidnapping of Moon Aide (https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/28/nyregion/fbi-holds-6-in-kidnapping-of-moon-aide.html) (The New York Times)
QuoteThe church leader, Bo Hi Pak, said he had been held for two days in a small house in Orange County and had been subjected to shocks with electric devices before being released. Two of the arrested men were identified by the F.B.I. as members of the Unification Church and friends of Mr. Pak.
November 28: Six South Koreans Charged in Moon Official's Kidnapping (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/11/28/Six-South-Koreans-charged-in-Moon-officials-kidnapping/5348470466000/) (UPI)
QuotePak got into a car driven by Su Il Yi, 51, where he was met by several other Koreans who pulled guns, handcuffed and blindfolded him....
Lee Laster, the FBI's assistant director in New York, said Pak's captors used electric shocks and fired guns close to his head in a day and a half of torture to convince Pak 'they would kill him if he did not agree to transfer $1 million to a Swiss bank account.' ...
Laster declined to speculate whether internal church politics or South Korean politics were involved but, 'We believe it was a strictly financial deal. They were looking for a million dollars and any way they could get it.'
But during an arraignment in Newark, N.J., Yi's attorney told U.S. Magistrate G. Donald Haneke that the kidnapping 'ostensibly is a power struggle within the Unification Church.' He did not elaborate.
December 10: Crime: Kidnaping of a Moonie (https://time.com/archive/6701039/crime-kidnaping-of-a-moonie/) (Time Magazine)
QuoteThey threatened to harm Pak's wife and six children, who live in suburban Virginia, if the ransom was not paid. ... An attorney for Nam said that the abduction arose out of an internal church dispute and was an attempt to change Unification Church policy. Joy Garrett, a church spokeswoman, said that Nam's claim was "absolutely false," adding, "As far as we are concerned, this is not a church matter."
June 14, 1985: Kidnap Plea Entered (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/national/1985/06/14/kidnap-plea-entered/9467b886-122c-49bd-bc3b-afda578b42ce/) (The Washington Post)
August 21: US Releases Moon, Ending Prison Term On Tax Fraud Count (https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/21/nyregion/us-releases-moon-ending-prison-term-on-tax-fraud-count.html) (The New York Times)
The above article has more about the kidnapping, and I spotted a 40-year-old typo:
QuoteIn another action involving the church, a South Korean national who admitted kidnapping a top assistant of Mr. Moon last year was sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and attempted extortion charges.
The man, Yung Soo Suh, 49, admitted in Federal District Court in Manhattan that he led a group that kidnapped the church official, Col. Bo Hi Pak, in Manhattan last September and held him in upstate Orange County.
Colonel Pak, who served as acting head of the church during the imprisonment of its leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, on tax-evasion charges, was held for two days. He was rleased when he agreed to transfer $500,000 in church funds to his kidnappers' secret Swiss bank account.
Six men, all Korean natives, were arrested two months after the kidnapping. Charges were dropped against three and another was acquitted of kidnapping charges. The last defendant, a retired South Korean Marine general, Sang Whi Nam, is to go on trial Nov. 18.