Younger Brother "Dead" While Alive... 50s Man Extorted Funeral Expenses from Lover

Received 18 Million KRW in 8 Installments and Embezzled
Chuncheon District Court Sentences to 6 Months Imprisonment
Series of Fraud Crimes Impersonating Family Deaths

A man in his 50s who extorted money from his lover under the pretext of funeral expenses, claiming that his younger brother who was very much alive had died, was sentenced to prison.

On the 14th, Judge Park Seong-min of the Chuncheon District Court Criminal Division 3 announced that he sentenced A (56), who was indicted on fraud charges, to six months in prison. A was charged with fraudulently obtaining about 18 million won from B, his lover, in eight installments until April of last year, including 3 million won in February last year by saying, "My younger brother, whom I was nursing, died. If you send money for the coffin, I will pay you back after the funeral."

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Investigations revealed that A’s younger brother was not deceased, and at the time, A’s business was in financial trouble, making him unable to repay the money. A is also accused of extorting 11.3 million won from acquaintance C under the pretense of business funds.

Judge Park stated, "Considering the fact that the defendant has a history of multiple punishments for the same crime, that B does not want the defendant to be punished, and that 3 million won was repaid to C, the sentence was determined."

Meanwhile, there was a recent case where a man in his 30s was indicted for defrauding about 700 million won by deceiving his girlfriend into believing his living mother had died to obtain funeral expenses, as well as borrowing money from friends and not repaying it. On the 1st, the Pohang Branch of the Daegu District Prosecutors’ Office announced that they had arrested and indicted D, a man in his 30s, on charges of fraud and forgery of private documents.

D, an office worker, borrowed a total of 460 million won from his girlfriend between March 2021 and July 2023 under the pretext of investment funds or apartment subscription fees and did not repay it.

He also obtained hospital fees by claiming his parents were ill and further deceived others by pretending his living mother had died to receive funeral expenses. The prosecution stated that the amount D fraudulently obtained under the pretense of hospital and funeral expenses for his parents reached about 100 million won. D is also charged with borrowing 250 million won from a friend under the pretext of investing in company stocks and failing to repay it.

Additionally, at the end of last year, a woman in her 30s who extorted over 200 million won from a man in his 50s she met through a chat application under the pretext of her father’s funeral expenses was sentenced to prison. She lied to the man, saying, "I will receive several hundred million won from my father’s death insurance, but I need to take out a loan to pay for the funeral expenses. Since the loan was not approved, please lend me money." However, her father was not deceased, and the money she fraudulently obtained was reportedly intended for living expenses and host bar bills. The Suwon District Court sentenced her to two years in prison.

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