A man in his 20s has been charged with siphoning off about 7 billion won after pretending to date a peer woman and receiving assets worth 10 billion won in cash from her parents.
According to the legal community on the 21st, the Daegu District Prosecutor's Office's Criminal Division 2 (Director General Kim Sung-won) has indicted A on charges of violating the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes. Co-defendant B, who is also in his 20s and is accused of storing part of the crime revenue with A, has been indicted without detention.
A is accused of approaching a woman in her 20s, C, from November 2023 until last month, deceiving her under the pretense of being in a relationship, and siphoning off 10 billion won in cash assets that wealthy C's parents were holding and had in their bank accounts.
Investigations revealed that A converted about 7 billion won of the assets into hard-to-trace gift certificates and subsequently resold them to a personal gift certificate vendor to cash out. Reports indicate that some of the revenue was also transferred to B.
The prosecution has requested the seizure of cash and gift certificates worth about 2.9 billion won, luxury watches, bags, and other assets secured during the investigation.