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Lead] A woman in her 40s was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison for committing a large-scale charter scam.

However, the victims are not getting their deposit back.

Although the government belatedly came up with countermeasures, there are still many victims of charter fraud who have been deprived of their livelihood and are not receiving any support.



Reporter Kim Seung-pil covered the story.



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Mr. Kwon Mo, who carried out a large-scale charter fraud in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do.



[Kwon Mo/Cheonse Fraudulent (July 2019): I hope that false or exaggerated information will not make our tenants anxious and harmed.



] However, in the first trial last month, the maximum court sentence of 15 years in prison was handed down.



Only the victims who appear in the ruling are all 130 households, and the recognized damage is 12.3 billion won.



However, it is very rare for victims to recover even a little of their deposit.



[Victim of Charter Fraud: Really, really, we thought we were lucky.

really got this much.

(Is it lucky to receive a dividend of 40 million won out of 127 million won deposit?) Because no one has ever heard of receiving a dividend.]



Mr. Most of the things were not, so the tenants were not the first priority per root mortgage.



[Ahn Yoo-se/Attorney: There are very few people who have received any dividends.

For about 110 to 120 minutes, you can consider that you have not received any reimbursement for damage.]



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As the case progressed, the victims became credit delinquents or were completely deprived of their livelihoods, but there was no support from the authorities or the community.



[Victim of Charter Fraud: When talking to the local government, then how are these people living? Then, what is the standard of living of these people now



? Mr. Jang, who committed charter fraud by purchasing



[Mr. Chang/December 2020: (I understand that you are on trial for charter fraud. Do you admit the fraud charge?) …

.]



Mr. Jang was sentenced to 7 years in prison in the second trial in July of last year.



Of the total damage of 5 billion won, only about 1.8 billion won was recovered.



[Charter fraud victim: I only received 20 million won in top priority.]



[Charter fraud victim: The local government just thought it was simple.

Since it was a problem issued by a transaction between individuals, I thought it was up to the individual to solve it.]



Recently, the government has strengthened its response to charter fraud, but victims are asking where the government and local governments have been for the past 3 or 4 years.



[Victim of charter fraud: They say they are finally moving after 3 or 4 years, but I think it was a sufficiently preventable time.]



(Video coverage: Joo Yong-jin)