A father-in-law who hid the proceeds of the crime of his son-in-law, who is suspected of coin investment fraud, reported damage to the theft and was caught.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's financial crime investigation team has arrested a man in his 50s on charges of concealing criminal proceeds.
A's crime was discovered on the 14th when A reported to 112 saying, "800 million won in cash from the officetel has disappeared."
Anyang Manan Police Station in Gyeonggi Province, which was dispatched to the scene, confirmed through the financial crime investigation team that A was involved in the fraud of his son-in-law B's investment reading room when A showed strange signs, such as failing to properly answer the source of the funds.
Since then, it has been detected through nearby closed-circuit (CC) TVs that A moved the money from the officetel to another nearby officetel just before the report.
Police found 2.8 billion won in cash in the second officetel.
The financial crime investigation team arrested A and confiscated KRW 2.8 billion. At the same time, he believed that A knew that KRW 2.8 billion was B's fraudulent crime profit, and secured A's whereabouts and handed it over to the prosecution on the same day.
There is a possibility that A made a false report in advance in preparation for the future tracking of his son-in-law, a police official said. "We are closely investigating why A made such a false report."
Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team
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