4 people sent to prosecution for laundering and remitting voice phishing proceeds as virtual assets

4 people charged for laundering and remitting voice phishing proceeds as virtual assets

The Chungbuk Provincial Police Agency's Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Investigation Unit announced on the 22nd that it has sent four individuals, including a 40-year-old Mr. A, to prosecution without detention on charges of laundering voice phishing crime proceeds into virtual assets and delivering them to the organization (violation of the Act on the Refund of Damages from Electronic Financial Fraud).

They are accused of receiving 150 million won in cash from a victim who was defrauded by the voice phishing organization they belonged to in August last year, then converting it into virtual assets and delivering it to the organization.

It was investigated that the organization Mr. A belonged to posted fake investment information on social media and defrauded victims of money by deceiving them into believing they could "make a lot of money."

Mr. A and others reportedly told the police that they "thought it was a high-paying part-time job."

The police plan to continue their investigation into the upper echelons of the voice phishing organization.