'Arrest Warrants Issued for Three Former Construction Union Officials of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions on Charges of Recruitment and Extortion'

Arrest warrants have been issued for three former executives of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) Construction Union who committed illegal activities at construction sites in Seoul.

According to the police and prosecution on the 10th, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Violent Crime Investigation Unit applied for arrest warrants on the 8th for Woo Mo, former Seo-nam branch chief of the KCTU Construction Union Seoul and Northern Gyeonggi Construction Branch, and two others. The prosecution filed the arrest warrants with the court on the same day.

The pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant hearing) will be held on the 14th at the Seoul Central District Court.

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Woo and others are accused of coercing construction company officials to hire union members and extorting approximately 130 million won in cash and goods under the pretexts of union full-time fees and collective agreement fees at construction sites around Seoul, including an apartment construction site in Gangdong-gu, from August 2020 to February last year (joint extortion and joint coercion under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes).

The KCTU expelled all of them after holding a disciplinary committee a month after receiving reports from union members in October last year that they had used the full-time fees for personal purposes.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is intensively investigating various illegal activities of the two major trade unions and small construction unions in the metropolitan area. On the 8th, it handed over two people, including the chairman of the H Construction Industry Union affiliated with the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU) National Federation, to the prosecution in custody.

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