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A group of people who stole 360 ​​billion won from 5,000 investors was caught saying that they can make money by investing in bonds of a solar power business.

When I went to the place where they had invested, it was a company that had no substance.



Correspondent Kim Ji-wook reported.



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[A/CEO (last September 2020): When you walk out that door, your assets and income will basically change.]



Mr. A in his 40s started a financial consulting company in 2018 and , held investment briefing sessions all over the country, introducing themselves as 'a wealthy investor worth hundreds of billions of won who succeeded in investing in bonds'.



"If you invest in corporate bonds that do solar business, you get principal guaranteed and interest up to 2% monthly," he said, soliciting investors.



He said that he would let his company's employees also invest, and that if they bring in other investors, he'll return up to 4% of the principal in return.



Through this multi-step method, up to June of last year, we had received about 360 billion won from more than 5,000 people.



However, the money deposited by new investors was used to block the return of existing investors as interest, and the rest was used by the company's management to buy real estate, stocks, luxury foreign cars, watches, and more.



[Victim: About 350 million through savings, pensions, or personal credit loans...

I don't have any retirement funds.] I



went directly to the company that was promoting it as an investment destination.



It was an office of about 5 pyeong in Guro-gu, Seoul, and it was a so-called 'shell company' that had nothing to do with the solar business.



[Solar company employee: (About this company) I don't know.

(Do you not know what kind of work you do?) Yes.] The



police confiscated 83.2 billion won by detaining Mr. A and 8 people, including the company's management, and handed over 150 company employees to the prosecution.



The police plan to expand the investigation to see if there are any additional victims and whether there are any proceeds from the crime that have not been secured.



(Video coverage: Kim Seung-tae, video editing: Lee Jung-taek)