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Amid growing suspicion of land speculation by employees of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), it has been confirmed that Gwangmyeong City and Siheung City officials who have jurisdiction over the candidate site for the new city have also purchased the land for the new city candidate site. . Separately, Gyeonggi-do has initiated a full-scale investigation of allegations of speculation by receiving consents for the use of personal information from 1,500 people including former and current employees of the provincial government’s land-related business and employees of the Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation (GH). Gwangmyeong Mayor Park Seung-won held a press conference on the morning of the 10th. We are investigating whether or not they have participated in the speculative act.” The number of Gwangmyeong City Hall officials who acquired the land was △2 grade 5 △3 grade 6 △1 grade 8 by position. By year of land acquisition, △ 1 person in 2015 △ 1 person in 2016 △ 1 person in 2019 △ 3 people in 2020. ▶ Related Articles 3 and 4 They purchased rice paddies, fields, and land in urban development districts such as Gahak, Okgil, Gwangmyeong, and Noonsa-dong from 124m2 to as much as 1322m2. A sixth-level (team leader-level) public official who purchased 793 square meters of forest for 400 million won in a joint name with his family in Gahak-dong, Gwangmyeong-si, designated as a Gwangmyeong-Siheung public housing district with a scale of 70,000 units, was also confirmed to be illegally altered in character as a result of an on-site investigation in Gwangmyeong City. Gyeonggi Siheung Mayor Im Byung-taek also held a press conference this afternoon, saying, “As a result of investigating 2071 employees up to this day, 7 voluntary reports and 1 self-investigation were found to have acquired land in the Gwangmyeong and Siheung districts.” Seven voluntary reporters were acquired between 1980 and 2016, so there is insufficient circumstances to suspect speculation, and a fifth-level (manager-level) public official, who is about to retire, purchased and acquired 1 parcel (91m2 of embankment) in Gwangmyeong-si through an auction in October last year. We are investigating the process. On the other hand, Gyeonggi-do, which investigated the speculation by public officials of Gyeonggi Province, after a suspicion of dumping by an LH employee was raised, confirmed the scope and method of the investigation on that day, and began to submit consent to the use of personal information from the parties. The survey targets were approximately 1,500 employees, including 800 employees who worked in the urban housing office of Gyeonggi Province within the last five years and 700 employees of the Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation (about 630 currently employed and 70 retired). In addition, it is a policy to examine the existence of the employee, the siblings, and the direct survival of the spouse and the purchase of land by the brothers and sisters, so the actual number of subjects of the investigation may exceed 10,000. The consent to the use of personal information, such as direct survivors and siblings, is scheduled to be received by the 17th. A Gyeonggi-do official said, “Who is going to be a public official speculating in the world right now? Rather, there is a high possibility that there will be real estate speculation using the name of a relative, so we will also look into the existence of a spouse, etc., and we will complete the investigation within the next month.” Gyeonggi-do will check whether they have paid real estate acquisition tax managed by local governments in the past five years to check whether they have acquired real estate, and if it is revealed that they have purchased land in urban development project districts such as the third new city, it will conduct a detailed investigation. did. Gyeonggi-do’s real estate speculation suspicions are investigated in the 3rd new cities such as Gwangmyeong and Siheung, Yongin Platform City, Pyeongtaek Hyeondeok District, Gwangmyeong Hakon, Seongnam Geumto, Anyang Gwanyang High School, and Anyang Indeokwon District. Gyeonggi Province decided to add 10 auditors to the survey, and to inject 76 citizen auditors to ensure the objectivity, reliability, and transparency of the survey. Previously, Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myeong said through his social network service (SNS) on the 3rd, “With the total survey ordered by President Moon Jae-in, Gyeonggi Province also conducted a comprehensive survey of all regions of the 3rd new city, Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation, and related departments. It goes into self-investigation. It is natural to have a natural color circle and a clear punishment. It must be made clear that it is obviously beneficial to follow the agreed rules.” By Hong Yong-deok, staff reporter