[단독] LH new employee “Even if this is cut off, the land income is more than a lifetime salary”

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JTBC also obtained the contents of an in-house messenger conversation containing the situation of illegal speculation by LH employees. One employee said to his colleagues last year, “I will buy a public housing site under someone else’s name.” This is what a new employee who has just joined the company for six months said. It is doubtful whether or not they entered the LH to prevent speculation.

This is reporter Jung A-ram.

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It is a messenger used by LH employees inside the company.

Mr. Jeong Mo, who joined as a new employee last year, mentions Daegu Yeonho district in a messenger.

Since Yeonho District was designated as a public housing district in 2018, LH employees will not be able to buy the land afterwards.

Still, Mr. Jeong says, “Daegu Yeonho district will go up unconditionally, so I am preparing for joint investment by collecting money with my brother’s friends.”

“Because you cannot buy LH land under your own or your family name, you need a name,” he explains.

As for the reason for this illegal speculation, the logic is that “even if it is cut off by this, the land profit is more than the money the company makes for a lifetime.”

Mr. Jeong said, “The places that are not approved for administrative disposition cost less,” and recommends other redevelopment areas as well.

[제보자/LH 직원 : 차명 투기나 사전 투기는 암암리에 상당해서 저희 회사 안에서는 전혀 이상하지 않은 분위기예요. 가족이 아닌 지인 명의로 차명 투기하는 직원들도 많아요.]

At the time of the messenger conversation, Mr. Jeong worked at the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Regional Headquarters Land Sales Department.

If you have actually invested, you cannot rule out the possibility that you have used the information you obtained from your work unfairly.

Regarding this, in a phone call with JTBC, Mr. Jeong said, “I could have said that, but I said it as a joke,” and “I have never bought and sold Yeonho District.”

This is why there is a growing voice that the joint government investigation headquarters and the National Police Agency’s national investigation headquarters should focus on investigating car-name transactions.

[제보자/LH 직원 : 3기 신도시만 주목받는데 신도시에 직접 투자하는 직원은 적고, 신도시 인근에 차명으로 산 케이스가 많아서 사실 이걸 조사해야 돼요.]

There is also a need for measures to correct LH’s service discipline, which has become weak enough to talk about illegal speculation information through in-house messengers.

(Video Design: Kim Ji-yeon)