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A group of people who tricked their acquaintances into extorting about 10.7 billion won from their acquaintances was handed over to the prosecution by saying that they would get a rental house at a low price.
The Gangdong Police Station in Seoul announced today (31st) that a woman in her 50s was arrested and sent to charge of fraud and forgery of private documents under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes, and four accomplices were transferred without detention.
Mr. A is accused of stealing from her acquaintances by receiving about 10.7 billion won from her acquaintances for about 7 years from 2015 to Feb. .
In the 'existing housing jeonse rental' system, the applicant selects a house they want to live in and applies to SH, and SH makes a jeonse contract with the home owner and then leases it again at a low price. This is mainly supported for low-income families and newlyweds without a home.
However, Mr. A and others are accused of extorting money from 65 people, including her acquaintances and classmates, by actually signing a monthly rental contract with a general housing landlord unrelated to SH and then showing the forged rental contract documents to the victims as if they had obtained a rental house. I receive.
The Jeonse deposit received from the victims was investigated as a kind of 'blocking' by spending monthly rent, and the amount of individual damage was found to be in the hundreds of millions of won depending on the type of residence of the victims, such as officetels and apartments.
A police official said, "Since the first complaint against Mr. A was received in February, additional damage cases have been coming out one after another, and the extent of the damage is expected to increase in the future. "He said.
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