Prosecutor General's Office Selects 7 Best Cases Including 'New Town Information Leak'

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] On the 17th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office announced that it selected and commended seven outstanding monthly criminal division cases, including the Criminal Division 5 of Incheon District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Choi Jae-hoonsa), which uncovered the crimes of researchers who leaked information related to new town candidate areas and gained huge illegal profits.

The Supreme Prosecutors' Office explained that the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office investigation team revealed that academic researchers and university professors used information obtained during the service process to acquire farmland within the 3rd new town project candidate sites and registered it under borrowed names to disguise criminal proceeds. At that time, the investigation team indicted six people, including the information leakers, and completed seizure and preservation measures on criminal proceeds amounting to approximately 1.669 billion KRW in compensation deposits.

Other outstanding cases included the case of the Criminal Division 2 of Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Lee Bok-hyun), which uncovered the truth of a case where suspects were intoxicated and threatened to write a memorandum admitting to rape "while drunk" in order to extort settlement money, resulting in the arrest and indictment of four false accusation offenders.

Also selected were the Criminal Division 1 of Cheongju District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Dan Seong-han), which revealed breach of trust and fraud charges against the head of the Sajik 2 District regional housing association and the operator of the business agency, and the Criminal Division of Seosan Branch of Daejeon District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Eo In-seong), which indicted organization members who lured victims using face synthesis as bait and engaged in coercion and threats in the Telegram group chat "Chamgyoyukdan".

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