A man in handcuffs opens the safe, revealing two bags.
The bag is filled with 5 packages of 50,000 won.
In another brown envelope, packages of 50,000 won continually come out.
When I counted it with a banknote counter, the total amounted to 380 million won in cash alone.
It is cash from a company pretending to be a professional investment trader to trick investors into thinking that unlisted stocks will soon be listed, but in reality they are a ghost company.
Those caught by the police had to sit in the office where they were cheating and fill out a statement.
Gangbuk Police Station in Seoul arrested 15 a day of an investment trader in Beon-dong, Gangbuk-gu, and handed them over to prosecution on suspicion of stealing 3.6 billion won of investments from more than 190 investors.
The suspects provided false information to stock investors via telegram, text message and phone calls after creating articles and corporate promotional material claiming that “Company A, a software company, will be listed at the end of February” from November of last year. year, and is in charge of taking and intercepting.
They tricked the victims into telling them that they could earn 4 to 5 times the profit as well as guarantee the capital if they were listed and tricked them into investing.
However, a police investigation revealed that it was a title that had no plans to go public.
They bought a large amount of Company A stock, which was 1,700 won per share in October last year, and then sold the shares to victims for up to 34,000 won per share until February of this year.
Then, as the end of February approached, which they pretended to be a listing date, they closed their offices and disappeared.
But within a month, another office opened in a nearby building about 300 meters away.
Then, he is accused of committing a crime in the same way by distributing the content that “Company B should be listed on May 31”.
Following police investigations, it was revealed that in the second offense, the stock was sold to investors raising the price from 500 won a week through March to 25,000 won.
Before the indictment, the police called for confiscation, promotion and conservation and took measures to prevent them from disposing of the illegally acquired assets: 1.57 billion won.
A police officer said: “The cannon phone, laptop and USB storage device used in the crime were confiscated.”
He also urged investors to pay attention, saying, “Investors who suffered from the drop in the stock market or virtual currency market last year are systematically conducting investment scams using core recovery psychology.”
Source: Seoul Gangbuk Police Station Investigation Division
