'Former Gwangju Buk-gu Redevelopment Association Head Arrested on Charges of Employment Fraud and Construction Contract Bribery'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] A former union leader of a redevelopment project in Gwangju who extorted money from a company in exchange for construction contracts has been arrested.

On the 29th, Judge Park Min-woo, head of the warrant division at Gwangju District Court, issued an arrest warrant for Mr. A (60), the head of a housing redevelopment maintenance project union in Buk-gu, Gwangju, on charges of fraud.

Judge Park stated the reason as "there is a risk of evidence destruction and flight."

Mr. A is accused of receiving 110 million won from the company side in collusion with an accomplice in exchange for securing construction contracts during his tenure as union leader in 2017.

He is also charged with deceiving the daughter of an acquaintance of a victim construction company official by promising to get her employed at a large corporation and pocketing 50 million won.

Mr. A is also connected to Investigator B of the Gwangju Police Agency, who was recently arrested for leaking business secrets.

Investigator B had previously investigated Mr. A on charges of taking bribes from construction companies, and for this reason, it is known that Mr. A reported suspicions against Investigator B, including violations of the Attorney-at-Law Act, to the prosecution.

Accordingly, Mr. A's case was transferred from the existing investigation division's Anti-Corruption Economic Crime Investigation Unit to the Criminal Division's Violent Crime Investigation Unit.

A Gwangju Police Agency official explained, "Investigating a person related to Investigator B in the same department could cause unnecessary misunderstandings, so the case was transferred to a different investigation department. This matter had been coordinated with the prosecution for the warrant application even before the investigator was arrested."

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