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is a private equity manager, Optimus Asset Management, which has invested hundreds of billions of won in a safe place such as a sales bond of a public institution and raised investments in loans or insolvent companies. The amount of suspension of repurchases so far has exceeded 100 billion won, but as of the end of May, the amount of damages is expected to increase as the related fund sales exceeded 500 billion won. Prosecutors arrested Optimus executives, but the investigation is likely to expand further asking for accountability for fund fraud.

Reporter Min Kyung-ho.

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court issued a warrant yesterday (7th) for Optimus Asset Management CEO Jae-Hyun Kim, second shareholder Lee Mo-san, and director Yoon Mo-young.

It is said that there is a reason to investigate if the facts of the blood are called and the importance of the matter is examined.

The prosecution's scam is as follows.

We are looking for investors to purchase 3 years of bonds from construction companies that have won construction projects for public institutions, such as the Korea Expressway Corporation.


However, the actual funding was not a safe place to invest, but went into a poor lender, real estate developer, and forged documents to deceive investors in the process.

Since last year, it has been attracting more than 500 billion won in this way, but the current amount of money that has been repurchased has exceeded 100 billion won.

There was also suspicion that many of Optimus' current and current employees are from certain universities and are entangled with the current state of government.

Former representative Lee Hyeok-jin, who left the country last year after undergoing prosecutors' investigation for alleged embezzlement, was elected as a member of the Democratic Party in 2012.

Also, arrested lawyer Yoon and his wife, Lee Mo, have recently resigned from the incident as an executive of the Office of Civil Affairs at the Blue House.

The prosecution plans to thoroughly investigate the allegations raised by reinforcing the investigative manpower as the case is a financial crime that leads to the damage of the common people and even suspicions of lobbying in the political sphere.

(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, Video editing: Chae Cheol-ho)