Mr. Kang, the original Hwagok-dong villa king, owns 283 villas in Hwagok-dong, Seoul and commits charter fraud by not returning the deposit to the tenants.
Behind Mr. Kang was Mr. Cho, a licensed real estate agent.
The fact that Mr. Kang was only the chief of the pants was conveyed through Episode 3 of King Villa-Kook.
However, after the report, a report came.
It was the content that Mr. Cho, who disappeared in 2019 when the damage of charter fraud began to break out in Hwagok-dong, Seoul, was still carrying out charter fraud.
The place where Mr. Cho, who had disappeared, returned, was also 'Hwagok-dong'.
In 2019, Hwagok-dong disappeared
According to the real estate industry officials, it was around the spring and summer of 2019 that Mr. Cho disappeared from Hwagok-dong.
This is the point at which damage from the first-generation charter scam began to rise to the surface.
The original Hwagok-dong villawang Kang victims are also on the verge of suing the investigative agency.
At this time, Mr. Cho closes the Hope Real Estate he was running.
He even puts up a note announcing the closure of the tenants he brokered.
He said, 'There was an accident in which Mr. Kang could not act as a landlord,' and he said, 'He is preparing to close his business because he is embarrassed and difficult.'
<A note left by Mr. Cho to the victims of charter
fraud> Due to an accident in which Mr. Kang, the landlord, could not act as a landlord, Mr. Kang's agent is in the process of selling the villa he is living in to tenants with the deposit. .
(Omitted)
I am also preparing to close down in April because I am embarrassed, confused and difficult because this is the first time this has happened.
We're here to help if there's anything we can do until it closes.
A real estate broker whom the reporters met said that it has been about four years since Cho left, and that he will not be able to return to Hwagok-dong in the future.
[Nearby Real Estate]
"It's been four or five years since I left. I left. I haven't heard from you since then. I can't come back to this area. There was an incident with Kang."
In 2021, establish a corporation and return to Hwagok-dong
But in 2021, Mr. Cho built a real estate construction company, S Company.
We also set up an office in Hwagok-dong.
The corporation founded by Mr. Cho is registered as a 'construction business'.
When I did my research, I actually built it.
He built three villas in Hwagok-dong, Seoul.
After leading the charter scam in Hwagok-dong, he disappeared for a while and then returned to Hwagok-dong.
Most of the new villas built by Mr. Cho have the same sale price and charter price.
It is a so-called 'can charter' building.
What is the probability that Mr. Cho, who led the 1st generation charter scam with no capital gap speculation using 'sale price = jeonse price', disappeared for a while and then returned to Hwagok-dong and built a villa, and that villa is a can with 'sale price = jeonse price'.
It's hard to see it as a coincidence.
I checked the registered copy of the newly built villa in Hwagok-dong established by company S.
A total of 18 villas were shared by two people.
Eleven houses are owned by Mr. A, a man in his 70s, and 6 are owned by Mr. B, a man in his 30s.
(One house is owned by a bank) The same name appears in the other villa registers built by company S.
What is the probability that the same landlords shared the villas built by the same company?
It won't be too high.
Who is the man in his 70s who gave his name to Mr. Cho?
The reporter visited Mr. A, who has at least 15 houses as the main prize of the register.
Mr. A was living on the second floor of a villa in a building far from Hwagok-dong.
(I won't mention the specific place names.) It looked a little shabby to see it as the house of a person who owns 15 newly built villas.
There I met Mr. A's wife.
Mr. A's wife said, 'Mr. A is also the president of pants that he lent only his name'.
She says that the business she has been doing for a long time has declined, and that it is difficult for people around her because of financial difficulties.
In this way, the money received by Mr. A is 500,000 won per house.
She says that Mr. A's wife found out about this when her property tax bill came in last year.
Mr. A, in his 70s, hid this from her family.
Another landlord, Mr. B, in his 30s, who shared the villa with Mr. A, was confirmed to have 403 villas nationwide.
The possibility that she is a pants boss like Mr. A cannot be ruled out.
[Mr. A's wife]
"You gave 500,000 won for each house and lent your name. I don't have any income right now, and money is in a hurry, so I think (the husband) fell for the trick. (The contract) was not written in writing, but verbally. I did it. Maybe my judgment is clouded because I'm getting older. We're receiving an old-age pension."
Mr. Cho, who returned to Hwagok-dong, was still continuing the charter scam with the boss of the pants at the fore.
His method is different from before.
I used to be a certified realtor, now I am an architect.
If you recruited the boss of the barge and gathered tenants to get a kickback, now you are setting up a villa yourself and committing charter fraud.
The sluggish investigation that gave Mr. Cho an indulgence for '3 years and 5 months'
The reason why Mr. Cho can continue to be active (?) is that the investigation by the police and prosecutors has been slow.
It was in August 2019 that the victims of the original Hwagok-dong villawang Kang and Jo's charter scam submitted a complaint to the investigative agency.
Already after Mr. Cho closed his real estate business and left Hwagok-dong.
The police who investigated this case sent them to the prosecution in August 2020, one year later.
However, the prosecution indicted them only on the 4th of this month.
It took two years and four months to indict.
It's already been 3 years and 5 months since the victims sued.
Between the passage of time of 3 years and 5 months, the victims were exhausted.
It has been a long time since conversations in the KakaoTalk group chat room where the victims of Mr. Kang and Mr. Cho gathered are gathered.
Some left the chat room because they were tired of the ongoing investigation and the unchanging situation.
The more the prosecution's investigation was delayed, the more the victims suffered.
The investigation was sluggish.
After the victims' complaints, they were transferred from the Southern District Prosecutor's Office to the Daejeon District Prosecutor's Office, and then returned to the Southern District Prosecutor's Office.
The prosecutor in charge has also changed several times.
When the victims asked about the situation of the investigation in a frustrated mind, the answers returned: 'There is no precedent', 'The law is being reviewed', and 'Complementary investigation is under way'.
In fact, one prosecutor replied, "It hasn't been long since the record was handed over, so it's still being reviewed."
I've been drawing only dodol-i-pyo for several years.
Charter scam victim 1
"No matter how much you ask, 'Investigation is underway.'
Victim of charter scam 2
"As the prosecutor kept changing, I only received a text message saying that only the person in charge changed. When (the prosecutor) called me for the first time, they said, 'There is a successful bidder, so I am not a victim.'"
The investigation seems to have been conducted intensively for only one month in December of last year.
It was a time when charter scams exploded here and there and the damage increased.
Victims express frustration, saying
, 'The investigation, which had not made any progress before, broke out, and everyone paid attention to it, so it speeded up'
.
In fact, if you look at the records, the investigation of the suspect was also conducted on 12/7, 8, 13, 14, 15, and 28.
It mainly happened in December.
Even the first summons investigation of the suspect Kang was at this time.
The investigative agency that said "it was a rebate, so it is not a violation of the Licensed Broker Act"
In the meantime, the statute of limitations for Cho's alleged violation of the Licensed Realtor Act has passed.
Since the statute of limitations had already passed in May of last year, more than half a year had passed.
Even the arrest warrant for Mr. Cho was dismissed.
The reason was 'the crime is heavy, but the right to defense must be guaranteed'.
The prosecution judged that the money Cho took while committing charter fraud was not 'excessive compensation' under the Licensed Realtor Act.
Since he received the 'kickback', he would not be violating the current realtor law.
However, for this reason, it is difficult to punish all realtors who planned or intervened in charter fraud from the early stage, like Mr. Cho.
Only when the Licensed Real Estate Act is violated, the broker's qualifications are suspended or new real estate openings are restricted.
If you do not violate the Licensed Realtor Act, it is difficult to sanction even if you are active in the field.
The judgment that receiving a 'rebate' rather than 'excess remuneration' and not violating the Certified Real Estate Agent Act is
practically the same as giving brokers an indulgence.
Prosecutors described it as "strategically non-prosecution."
If you are charged with 'fraud + violation of the brokerage law', the sentence can be lower than when you are prosecuted with a single case of 'fraud'.
However, it is difficult to understand the prosecution's explanation that they intentionally did not prosecute in order to receive a stronger punishment.
This is because, as explained by the prosecution, even if he is subject to severe punishment for obeying only one law, Mr. Cho can work without any restrictions in the future.
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