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A jewelry designer sued his business partner, claiming that he was forcibly deprived of rough gemstones that appraisers want in the hundreds of millions of won.
He said he even received threats against his family, but his partner said otherwise.
Reporter Kim Ji-wook covered this.
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There is an object that looks like a stone on the table, and a man writes a document in front of it.
What looks like a stone is a rough 40,000-carat sapphire with an estimated value of 590 billion won.
Park Ji-gon, a master jewelry designer, recently filed a complaint with the police, claiming that his partner A had stolen jewelry worth 700 billion won, including this gemstone.
[Park Ji-gon/Jewelry Designer: They come and go to my house several times.
Brother and sister, let's (Mr. A) do jewelry or gold business...
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Mr. A, who first approached with a business proposal, suddenly changed and began to threaten the family, and inevitably wrote a power of attorney to transfer rough sapphire stones and other jewelry worth 120 billion won.
[Park Ji-gon/Jewelry Designer: Put a term that can kill honor and put up a banner and post it on the Internet and Google...
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They said that Kim Jong-nam died.
A single sting can kill without a trace.
Grandsons and granddaughters get rid of them without a trace...
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However, Mr. A, who was designated as the blackmailing party, insisted, "I was only entrusted with the gemstone because I suffered damage, such as repaying Mr. Park's debt," and "There was no threat."
The police plan to investigate the exact circumstances by calling in Mr. A and others soon about the truth battle surrounding the gem stone the size of a person's face.
(Video coverage: Lee Sang-hak, video editing: Won-hee Won)