#Mr. A lived in Sejong with a spouse and two children, and after falsely registering the father-in-law, who lives in Iksan, and the mother-in-law, who lives in Boryung, at the person's own address, applied for and won an allotment in Sejong under the special supply for those supporting elderly parents. The government verified the false registration through "health insurance long-term care benefit records."#Mr. B colluded with Mr. C, and after applying for and winning an allotment in Incheon as a special supply for newlyweds under the status of a prospective newlywed couple, entered into a contract and filed a marriage registration. Later, they filed a "lawsuit to confirm nullity of marriage," asserting that the marriage registration was filed only for the newlywed allotment and that there had been no discussion of marriage or cohabitation, and restored single status.
As the number of fraudulent allotment winners has grown recently, including false address changes and sham marriages or divorces, the government will focus on investigating whether dependents actually reside at the stated addresses and other fraudulent winners.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Office for Government Policy Coordination's real estate supervision task force said on the 11th that, as winners with out-of-touch preference scores have surged, they are launching an investigation into all allotment complexes in regulated areas such as Seoul that were offered since July last year, as well as popular complexes in other areas. Those surveyed are 43 complexes totaling 25,000 households.
The government will look broadly at suspected fraudulent allotments that manipulated eligibility and conditions, including ▲false address changes ▲sham marriages or divorces ▲savings-account or qualification trading ▲document forgery.
This investigation will focus on winners with perfect scores under the preference-point system, closely checking whether parents and children actually reside together. The preference-point system has a total of 84 points, consisting of period without homeownership (32 points), number of dependents (35 points), and length of subscription-account enrollment (17 points). For number of dependents, four people receive 25 points, and six or more receive 35 points.
To more thoroughly verify whether dependents actually reside together, the government plans to check not only health insurance long-term care benefit records but also adult children's health insurance eligibility records and the dependents' Jeonsei or monthly rent records.
In particular, the investigation will also cover cases where people forge documents to increase the number of dependents or falsify eligibility for special supply by institutional recommendation (such as people with disabilities or national merit recipients).
Jeong Su-ho, head of the housing fund division at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), said, "Starting with this full-scale audit, we are increasing on-site inspection staff from eight to 15 and extending the inspection period per complex from one day to three to five days, and we plan to announce the results at the end of next month," adding, "To block short-term false address changes using adult children, we will strengthen the residency requirement from one year to three years and make submission of adult children's health insurance eligibility records mandatory, and we will simultaneously push an institutional improvement (revision to the housing supply rules)."
Director Jeong added, "If fraudulent allotment is confirmed, we impose strong measures, including criminal penalties (up to three years in prison or fines up to 30 million won), contract cancellation (recovery of dwellings) and forfeiture of the deposit (10% of the sale price), and a 10-year restriction on eligibility to apply, so please take special care to avoid civil and criminal disadvantages."