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Among the private equity funds, such as Lime and Optimus, where investors put their money in and suffered large losses, there is also a 'Discovery' fund.

As the money transferred to the US asset management company was frozen, redemption was stopped in 2019, two years after the sale, and the damage to investors alone exceeded 250 billion won.

Ha-won Jang is the CEO of Discovery Asset Management, which managed this fund.

He is the younger brother of Ha-seong Jang, Ambassador to China, who served as the chief policy officer of the Blue House.

Representative Jang Ha-won was investigated as a suspect by the police today (9th) on a fraud charge.

However, as a result of our coverage, it was confirmed that the police had secured a list of influential people who invested in the fund and the amount of investment, and there is also information that Ambassador Jang Ha-seong and his wife invested about 6 billion won.



Reporter Park Chan-beom reported exclusively.



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In July of last year, the police secured the files on the PC during a search and seizure of the office of the Discovery Asset Management Company.



In this file, the real names and investment amounts of influential people who invested in the Discovery Fund, which started selling in April 2017, were recorded.



It has been confirmed that the list includes the names of the ambassador to China, Jang Ha-seong, the older brother of the asset management company CEO Jang Ha-won, and his wife.



In July 2017, it was reported that they invested 6 billion won in the name of the two people.



Ambassador Jang acknowledged the fact that Korea University campus institutions and the Korean Financial Society have invested in the fund in the last state audit.



[Ambassador Ha-seong Jang (October 2020, government audit): (Korea University's corporate governance research institute fund, have you ever invested this fund in the Discovery Fund?) Yes.]



He never revealed that he himself invested in his brother's fund.



In July 2017, when the fund was invested, it was only three months after the sale started, and it has been about two months since Ambassador Jang took office as the head of policy at the current Blue House.



Deposits at a securities company soared to 4.4 billion won despite the property report disclosed by Ambassador Jang during his tenure as chief policy officer at the Blue House, but the police consider it to be money invested in the Discovery Fund.



Ambassador Jang said in a phone call with SBS, "I invested in the Discovery Fund with the proceeds of stocks disposed of prior to the disclosure of the property of high-ranking officials, and there was no favoritism."



The police summoned CEO Ha-won Jang today and are investigating how the file presumed to be a 'VIP list' was created.




In particular, it is known that the investigators on this list have been questioned whether the loss of investment has been preserved and whether they have played a role in this process.



(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, Park Hyeon-cheol, Choi Jun-sik, Yoon Hyung, video editing: Park Ji-in, CG: Son Ho-seok, Ban So-hee)



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