Is a Large-Scale Jeonse Fraud in Suwon Becoming a Reality? Over 50 Complaints Filed

Police impose travel ban on landlord couple Mr. A
Many tenants preparing to file complaints

More than 50 complaints have been filed alleging that a couple who owned multiple villas and officetels in the Seoul metropolitan area and other regions disappeared, leaving tenants unable to receive their jeonse deposits. The police have imposed a travel ban on the couple.

On the 8th, the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Investigation Unit of the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency announced that as of the afternoon, 52 complaints requesting punishment of the couple, Mr. and Mrs. A, the suspects in the case, on charges of fraud had been received. In particular, the number of complaints against the couple increased sharply, rising by 31 from 21 on the 7th to 52 in just one day.

Currently, the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency has imposed a travel ban on the landlord couple, Mr. and Mrs. A, in preparation for the possibility that they might leave the country.

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Many tenants who have not yet grasped the situation or are preparing to file complaints are expected to increase the scale of the damage. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. A, is known to own hundreds of villas and officetels in the Seoul metropolitan area, including Suwon.

According to estimates by tenants in the Suwon area, there are more than 500 officetel units owned by Mr. A alone. Online, there have even been claims that “a multi-family house owned by a corporation of Mr. A in Hwaseong City received a bank’s notice of voluntary auction.”

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About 300 tenants of buildings owned by the A family, who are presumed to be victims, are sharing the situation through SNS and are taking collective legal action. Many of these affected tenants reportedly signed lease contracts worth around 100 million won with the couple, but are now claiming that they cannot get their deposits back because the couple disappeared.

Considering the scale of the victims and other factors, the police transferred the case from the Suwon Nambu Police Station to the higher authority, the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency. They plan to thoroughly investigate the real estate and rental business status owned by the couple and to determine whether the suspects committed the crime with the intent to deceive the complainants.

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