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Today (24th) 8 o'clock news will start with the breaking news of the real estate speculation suspicion investigation.

First, we reported exclusively yesterday that the police are planning to confiscate and preserve the land and buildings around the planned train station site that a public official in Pocheon City, Gyeonggi-do bought, and the court accepted it.

It means that the officials cannot freely sell the land and buildings that are suspected of speculation.

In addition, the police said they are investigating allegations of speculation by three active lawmakers.



This is the first news, reporter Park Chan-beom.



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property subject to confiscation and preservation is the building and land that Pocheon City public servant Park Mo bought last September.



Park cannot dispose of the property worth 4 billion won to others.



[Seung Jae-Hyun / Research Fellow, Korea Criminal Policy Research Institute: The suspect cannot transfer real estate to a third party until the decision of the trial, so the state can confiscate the illegal profits received by the suspect after the final judgment...

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Mr. Park is convicted of the'Anti-Corruption Act' charges against him, the building and land will be regarded as criminal proceeds and will be subject to confiscation proceedings.



One of the keys to the police investigation was whether the profits gained from speculation could be redeemed, but the first button was pushed.



The police emphasized that in the future, real estate suspected of speculation will continue to apply for confiscation preservation.



[Choi Seung-ryul/Director of Investigation Bureau, National Investigation Headquarters of the National Police Agency: I will apply for confiscation and collection preservation of land and property acquired through speculation, and take all the methods permitted by the laws and systems, and make sure to recover unfair gains.] The



National Police Agency, LH, etc. About 400 people were said to be the targets of the suspicion of real estate speculation.



Among them, members of the National Assembly and local governments are included, and there are three active members of the National Assembly who receive internal investigations or investigations.




In addition, the police also seized and searched the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's Public Housing Headquarters and LH Headquarters, and they plan to secure a list of workers from 2015 to see if they traded their relatives under the name of their own.



In the midst of this, the National Assembly plenary session was passed on amendments to the Special Public Housing Act, which would allow public officials who used undisclosed information to improperly use up to life imprisonment.



(Video coverage: Nam Nam Kim, video editing: Jiyoung Hwang)