On the 22nd, the prosecution investigating suspicions of preferential treatment for development in Daejang-dong, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do handed over to trial Kim Man-bae, the major shareholder of Hwacheon Daewoo Asset Management, Nam Wook, the owner of Cheonhwa-dongin No. 4, and Jeong Young-hak, the owner of Cheonhwa-dongin No.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office’s dedicated investigation team (team leader Kim Tae-hoon, 4th deputy prosecutor) arrested and indicted Kim and Nam on charges of breach of trust and embezzlement under the Act on Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes, and bribery under the Act on Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes. The prosecution also indicted accountant Jeong, who had cooperated with the investigation by submitting a transcript, as an accomplice in breach of trust.
In 2015, they allegedly conspired with Seongnam Urban Development Corporation’s planning division head Dong-gyu Yoo in 2015 to receive unfair privileges in the process of public offering, selection, and agreement for the Daejang-dong development business, and to damage the Seongnam Urban Development Corporation by collecting excess profits of more than 65.1 billion won (Breach of the Special Act). receive Prosecutors found that they received at least 65.1 billion won worth of land development dividends and ‘significant implementation gains’. Prosecutors said they took 117.6 billion won, half of the profits from the four blocks that were sold last year, and the amount is expected to increase if the gains from the one block sold last month are added.
Kim Man-bae is accused of providing a bribe of KRW 500 million (bribery) in January of last year by promising to pay 70 billion won in bribes (promise to pay bribes) in October last year in exchange for receiving preferential treatment from Yoo. receive There are also charges of fraudulently registering an acquaintance as an employee and taking 443.5 million won from January last year to October of this year (business embezzlement).
Attorney Nam Wook stole company money from September to December 2019 (embezzlement under the Special Act) in exchange for receiving preferential treatment from Attorney Min-yong Jeong, who was the head of the investment business part of the Seongnam Urban Development Corporation’s strategic business team, and gave 3.5 billion won in bribes (bribery). He is accused of hiding it under the name of rental (violation of the law on the concealment of criminal proceeds).
Accountant Jeong Young-hak was determined to be an accomplice on the charge of breach of trust under the Special Administrative Police Act, but he was tried without detention in consideration of the fact that he appeared on his own from the beginning of the prosecution’s investigation and cooperated by providing transcripts of conversations with those involved. Prosecutors determined that accountant Jung was a reporter of a corrupt crime under the Crime Reporter Act and could be reduced or exempted from the sentence.
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