The police opened a safe found in a family home and confiscated a bundle of cash.
These are criminal proceeds from the sale of narcotics such as hemp and ecstasy.
A drug dealer was arrested on charges of selling drugs to 1,100 members through Telegram from June last year to March this year.
The Incheon District Prosecutor’s Office of Violent Crimes Criminal Division applied them to the charge of organizing a criminal group and handed over 15 people, including 25-year-old A, the general manager, to trial.
This is because, in order to sell drugs, they created a criminal group with a system by dividing roles such as procurement, advertising, sales by region, money laundering, and withdrawal of profits.
If the crime of forming a criminal group is recognized, the punishment will be further increased, the entire proceeds of crime may be confiscated and collected, and even members of an organization whose crimes have not been accurately confirmed can be punished just by joining the organization.
They are accused of systematically selling narcotics worth 140 million won in market value and laundering about 500 million won of criminal proceeds through virtual currency.
He is also accused of smuggling narcotics worth 100 million won and advertising to sell narcotics about 200 times.
In particular, they operated a group room dedicated to drug dealing on Telegram, and they were able to access the group room with a simple search.
Prosecutors confiscated 820 million won worth of criminal proceeds, such as deposits and virtual currency laundered under their borrowing names, and frozen them through presumed preservation.
An official from the prosecution explained, “For the first time, criminal group charges were applied and indicted for organized drug distribution through SNS.”
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