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You may remember the case of three mothers and daughters who bought hundreds of villas in the metropolitan area and did not return the rental deposit to the tenants.
Prosecutors are investigating the charges of arresting her mother, Kim, and conspiring with a real estate agent.
Correspondent Hong Young-jae.
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In a villa in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, completed in September 2017, nearly half of the 43 households, or 21, did not get their deposit back from the landlord.
According to the register, the landlord was a sister of Mr. Park, in his 30s, but in reality, it was a charter fraud led by his mother, Mr. Kim.
After signing a contract for the sale of a new building with no sale price, Mr. Kim inflated it from the actual price and gave the rent to the tenants, took some of the rental deposit, and paid the rest as the sale price.
Because I bought the villa with the tenant's money without own capital, I couldn't return the deposit, and 85 tenants suffered more than 18 billion won in damages.
Due to the nature of the new building, most of the victims were newlyweds and newcomers.
[Damaged tenant: In the meantime, I was preparing for marriage, and as this continued to lag with lawsuits and sluggishness, the direction itself collapsed even though the place of life is very important anyway.]
The prosecution arrested Mr. The charges of collusion with Mr. Yang, a business operator, were listed in the indictment.
Yang is accused of sharing with Kim about 1.2 billion won of the rental deposit that Kim, the mother of three detained mothers and daughters, received from tenants.
In addition, the investigation into the two daughters suspected of participating in Mr. Kim's fraud is continuing.