A convicted property mogul, who is at the center of a controversy for being allowed to pay off massive fines with prison labor, appeared before prosecutors Friday to face questioning over the unpaid fines. "I will pay the fines as soon as possible after persuading my family," Huh Jae-ho, the former chairman of the now-bankrupt Daeju Group, told reporters before entering the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office in the southwestern city of Gwangju at about 1:30 p.m.