Car Owner Blocking Commercial Parking Entrance for a Week Over 'Management Fee Complaints'... Referred to Prosecution

A man in his 40s who left his vehicle unattended for a week at the entrance of an underground parking lot in a commercial building in Incheon has been referred to the prosecution.

On the 7th, Incheon Nonhyeon Police Station announced that they had sent Mr. A, a man in his 40s who was booked without detention on charges of general traffic obstruction and obstruction of business, to the prosecution.

Mr. A is accused of leaving his vehicle at the entrance of the underground parking lot of a commercial building in Nonhyeon-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon, from the 22nd to the 28th of last month, obstructing the passage of other vehicles.

Mr. A, a tenant on the 5th floor of the commercial building, was investigated to have committed the crime out of dissatisfaction after the building management recently demanded additional maintenance fees and installed a barrier at the parking lot entrance to charge parking fees.

Mr. A claims that the building management imposed maintenance fees twice, but the management denies this, stating that proper procedures were followed. It is reported that the building management and the building owner are currently in a legal dispute over the maintenance fees.

The entrance to the underground parking lot of a commercial building in Nonhyeon-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon is blocked by an empty vehicle.
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On the 2nd, Mr. A posted on an online community, saying, "The management committee, which first appeared around May, asked me to pay several tens of millions of won in maintenance fees for several years that I had already paid to the (commercial building) owner," and claimed, "It is tyranny to prevent parking lot use if the fees are not paid."

He also explained, "I did not disappear during the (one week of vehicle abandonment)," adding, "I have a side job, so I was near the building while working another job, and I wanted to move the vehicle, but I was discouraged by the presence of reporters and YouTubers."

The police and the local district office did not tow the vehicle arbitrarily because Mr. A left it in a commercial building, which is not a road under the Road Traffic Act.

As the vehicle abandonment prolonged, the police applied for an arrest warrant and a vehicle seizure warrant for Mr. A on the 27th of last month, but the prosecution dismissed the request, stating there was little concern that he would ignore a summons.

A police official stated, "After the warrant was dismissed, Mr. A was investigated without detention," and added, "He admitted all his charges."

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