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ruling party warned that it would treat public officials' real estate speculation like a pro-national crime.

The unfair profit collected by speculation is that it will retroactively confiscate it, as if it were pro-Japanese property redemption, but there are many mountains to overcome.



Next is reporter Jeong Seong-jin.



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Unfair profits earned by public officials such as LH employees who bought land in new cities such as Gwangmyeong and Siheung, Gyeonggi-do can be confiscated through the Anti-Corruption Act.




However, you must provide proof that you have used a'business secret'.



Because of this limitation, the Special Act on Public Housing, revised on the 24th, made it possible to confiscate even if it uses internal information that is not'business secret', but this also does not apply retroactively.



Eventually, when criticism came out that the unfair gains gained by public officials could not be recovered, the Democratic Party pulled out a'retroactive legislation' card.



It is to promote retroactive confiscation by making a law as if it were to redeem pro-Japanese property.



[Choi In-ho /, with the Democratic Party chief spokesperson: restitution for unjust gain will look the same rank (is recognized) with (officials of) internal information, such as pro-Japanese banminjok actors wealth confiscation]



, but later laws made more criminal activity time Applying the provisions retroactively is unlikely to be easy.



The constitution stipulates that all citizens shall not be deprived of their property rights by retroactive legislation.



The general view of the legal community is that even the case of retroactive confiscation of the property of pro-general actors as exemplified by the Democratic Party is a special case for the purpose of embodying the constitutional ideology.



[No, Hee-beom/Attorney: You cannot redeem or confiscate any property you already acquired before the law was made.

That's the typical deprivation of property rights by retroactive legislation.] As



consensus about the need for retroactive confiscation is formed within the ruling party, it seems that the key will be how elaborate the legislation is made in the legislative process.



(Video coverage: Park Jin-ho, video editing: Lee Hong-myeong)