It is said that the prosecution sold expensive criminal confiscated items such as luxury watches to a public sale, and it was literally a jackpot.
Prosecutors sold three luxury watches confiscated from a suspect accused of opening an online gambling space earlier this month.
It was an expensive model set with diamonds, etc.
A Rolex watch with the lowest bid of 144 million won was sold at 21.69 million won, and the other two Swiss brand watches also surpassed the lowest bidders by 167 million won each.
It was sold for 1.8 million won.
The three watches surpassed 470 million won in total, setting an all-time high for individual short sales.
The Criminal Evidence Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, the largest public prosecutor's office in the country, is said to receive about 7,600 cases per year that are confiscated directly by the prosecution or sent by the local police station.
Most of the confiscated items are returned to the owner after the case is closed, but if they were provided for a crime or purchased with the proceeds of a crime, they are returned to the national treasury through a public sale according to the court's confiscation decision.