Many intentional accidents by deliberately hitting vehicles driven by elderly people in small rural towns, calling the police after causing accidents, pretending to be victims… The culprit is in a disguised employment status,
An African foreigner causing intentional accidents while driving a vehicle. (Photo=Provided by Gyeonggi NamBu Police Agency) * Prohibition of redistribution and DB,
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, ‘[Pyongtaek=Newsis] Reporter Yang Hyo-won = Five African foreigners have been captured by the police for selectively causing intentional traffic accidents only with vehicles driven by elderly people, embezzling tens of millions of won of insurance money.’,
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, ‘Police have apprehended perpetrators including A (32) on charges of violating the Special Law on Preventing Insurance Fraud.’,
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, ‘According to the Pyongtaek Police Station in Gyeonggi Province on the 26th, A and others are accused of embezzling insurance money amounting to 25 million won by causing five intentional traffic accidents from March last year to March this year.’,
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, ‘They committed the crimes by roaming small rural towns in Chungcheongnam-do, Seo-buk-gu, Cheonan and Pungseong-eup in Pyongtaek.’,
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, ‘A and others targeted areas where there were many vehicles driven by elderly people during daytime and where the elderly people’s response after the accident was inadequate.’,
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, ‘When they spotted elderly drivers entering the main road from a small road at an intersection, they caused accidents by not braking and hitting them directly. They then boldly committed crimes such as calling the police themselves claiming to be victims and demanding insurance processing.’,
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, ‘The victims were in their 70s to 75s.’,
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, ‘In particular, the main culprit A was found to have entered the country with a doctoral visa and was in a disguised employment status at a company in Anseong. The company entrusted A with tasks such as employee management due to his limited ability to speak Korean, and it was confirmed that A took advantage of this to attract African foreign workers to the company to commit crimes together.’,
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, ‘A made the African foreigners he attracted cause intentional accidents and then receive treatment, and even took some of the insurance money when it was paid out.’,
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, ‘In a recent special crackdown on traffic accidents, the police caught cases of suspected insurance fraud in the area and uncovered the charges against A and others through victim interviews and investigation.’,
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, ‘Although A and others denied the crimes during the police investigation, they confessed to the offenses based on victim statements, accident video analysis, insurance payment records, account details, and other evidence.’,
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, ‘A police official explained, “A knew that he could receive insurance money when the police and the insurance company came after the accident, and he continued to commit crimes by exploiting this fact,” and “The embezzled insurance money was used personally.”‘,
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, ‘He added, “Intentional traffic accidents for the purpose of embezzling insurance money are serious social crimes that result in a secondary harm of the increase of insurance premiums for honest citizens.” and said, “We will actively investigate and concentrate on eradicating insurance fraud once charges are captured.”.’,
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