A group of people who created a ghost corporation with no substance by sitting on homeless people as so called “pants bosses” borrowed in their names only, and sold 1048 canon bank books issued under the name of this corporation to illegal online gambling or voice phishing criminal. organizations, caught by the police. The production and distribution of canon bankbooks are actually being commercialized, and various criminal funds that have gone through the canon bankbooks they created are the largest ever, with a total of 13 trillion won for about three years.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Violent Crime Investigation Unit arrested 38 people belonging to the country’s largest gun account opening and renting organization, which operated mainly in Daegu between 2019 and July last year, and arrested six of them. The charges include organizing a criminal organization, obstructing business, and violating the Electronic Financial Transactions Act. It was investigated that two people in their 30s, including the leader, general manager A, and general commander B, had previously worked in the ‘Dongseongropa’ and ‘Hyangchondongpa’, organized gangs based in Daegu.
According to the police, in June 2019, Mr A was involved with a homeless man who was a former prison mate in the canon count crime. Since canon bank books are used for various crimes, financial institutions like banks have made it difficult to issue bank books recently.
For example, after setting up a corporation by borrowing the name of a homeless person, making this corporation a ‘head office’ and having several ‘branches’ under it, they successively made bank books in the name of the corporation. Not only homeless people were gathered, but also day laborers, part-time workers, and unemployed people, including 40 people, and it was investigated that 528 ghost corporations were created in this way. In some cases, up to 60 accounts were opened in one person’s name.
In particular, in the case of the homeless who lent their names, they rented one shabby room and managed it separately, and gave 200,000 earned a week for living expenses. On the other hand, it is known that the canon account they created was provided to criminal organizations for a monthly usage fee of 1.7 million won. In the process, they earn 21.2 billion won.
As the business grew to the point of managing more than 1,000 canon bank books, the organization became more like a company. Mr A also recruited other local gangsters and shared roles such as general management, corporate establishment, and bank account opening. In particular, it was found that the so-called ‘key taker’ that manages the canon bankbook is separately assigned to manage passwords or OTP (one-time password generator) for various canon bank books.
They also shared their activities in real time using pseudonyms on the online messenger Telegram to avoid investigation. They also shared a sort of code of conduct in preparation for police investigations, such as “Do not use your own mobile phone and change it regularly” and “Look around carefully when entering a residence, open the black box from time to time and look for traces of progression.”
After discovering the existence of this organization, the police conducted an investigation for five months and caught the group. When their stronghold was raided, 100 million won in cash was seized on the spot, and a total of 4.7 billion won, including 4.6 billion won in bank books, was demanded to stop payment for 566 bank book accounts canon. also taken to prevent arbitrary disposition.
A police officer said, “Recently, gangsters are not as violent as in the past, but they move and work for the purpose of profit by uniting and grouping together.”
