320 billion coin buy...The main culprit is "620,000 Subscribe" YouTuber.

A bunch of money in the vault...Proceeds from Coin Fraud Crimes

Crimes of thorough division of labor, such as coin issuance and money laundering, etc.

Issuing Unvalued Coins...Victims sell apartments.

[Anchor]
Police have arrested a group of people accused of committing a coin reading fraud and ripping away hundreds of billions from 15,000 people.

The total was 620,000 YouTubers, and it turns out that most of the coins sold by these groups are now delisted.

Reporter Yuh-hyun reports.

[Reporter]
There are many bundles of money in the safe.

Proceeds from the crime of the organization that committed the coin reading fraud.

The total book was YouTuber A with 620,000 subscribers.

We created a separate holding company and meticulously formed a team from sales, coin issuance, and money laundering.

Then, he pretended to give high-end information and attracted investors, saying that if you buy a specific coin, you can earn several times more profit.

[Coin Reading Room Fraud Organizer: I delivered the information to you about two months earlier. Big foreign companies and big financial players are now pre-buying this. These people.]

After listing its own issued coins on an overseas exchange, it raised prices and cleared doubts.

Some of the investors had to suffer more than 1 billion won or even sell apartments.

[Coin reading room scammer: (I sold my nails and my soul) What are you selling? Again) No. [There were toenails, so there were nails and hair]

The group even took out the victim's personal information and secretly received credit loans.

From December 2021 to March last year, A and others collected 320 billion won from 15,000 victims.

Investigators believe it is the largest coin reading fraud ever.

[Hwang Joon-won / Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Investigation Division 3: Arrested 215 members who shared their roles, making all-out attack on the largest virtual asset investment fraud criminal organization ever]

Of the 28 coins they sold, 26 have been confirmed to have been delisted.

Police confiscated 22 bitcoin held by the gunman who fled to Australia and applied for confiscation and collection preservation before prosecution for 47.8 billion won in criminal proceeds.

The police will notify the Financial Supervisory Service of measures to improve the system and expand intensive investigations nationwide into large-scale virtual asset investment fraud.

I'm YTN's YOSHIHYUN.

Reporter for shooting
: Jang Myung-ho
Video editing: Wang Xion