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The trust company owns the house entrusted by the landlord as collateral for the trust company to borrow money.
The police caught a gang of people who tricked unknowing newcomers into signing a fake charter agreement and stole 3.8 billion won from the charter deposit of 47 homes.
Reporter Lee Yoo-gyeong reports.
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A residential area in Gwanak-gu, Seoul where multiplex houses are concentrated.
40 meters from the bus stop, a 4 story building built only 6 years ago is all empty.
Some entrance doors have a court-mandated execution door to ‘leave the room’.
Mr Park, who has lived here for three years with a deposit of 100 million won, left his house suddenly at the request of the trust company and the court.
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“It was hell. Every day … They say they are giving me a grace period … I don’t even think it will be solved.”
The owner of the chartered house that appears in Mr Park’s contract is Mr. Shin, a man in his 30s born in 1985.
However, on the certified copy of the register, the actual owner is a trust company.
Mr Park was also aware of the existence of the trust company at the time of the contract.
However, Mr Shin, who claimed to be a landlord, even wrote a bill to pay back the deposit, and when the real estate agent helped, saying, “No problem,” he believed and signed it.
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“In real estate, ‘The landlord lent it as collateral for the building. When you move in, you pay it all and (the trust company) disappears.
However, this promise was not kept.
The owner of the building, a man in his 60s, surnamed Song, borrowed money to buy a house after transferring the ownership to a trust company, and took the deposit from the tenants, claiming that the houses were to be leased.
In this process, a ‘substitute landlord’ was attracted as ‘Mr. Shin, born in 1985’.
In this way, 3.8 billion jeonse deposits won by Song and his gang were intercepted in the Gwanak-gu and Guro-gu districts of Seoul.
A total of 47 tenants were inspected who were in a position to be evicted from their homes without getting their deposit back.
Last month, the police arrested Song and two real estate brokers who were involved in the crime, and also handed over the proxy landlords who lent names as Song’s children and acquaintances to the prosecution.
This is Lee Yoo-gyeong from MBC News.
Video commentary: Choi In-kyu / Video editing: Bae Jin-jin
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