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Report Center “Various from LH staff, public officials, and lawmakers”
After analyzing the report content, decide whether to investigate

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Reports of allegations of land speculation are pouring out to the government joint special investigation headquarters (special edition), which is investigating allegations of speculation by employees of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH·LH). The special edition will soon be summoned by LH employees who are suspected of speculation. The special edition announced that it had received 171 reports (as of 5 pm) related to allegations of land dumping through the Report Center, which began business the day before the 16th. An official in the special division said, “The contents of reports are varied, including allegations of speculation by LH employees, government officials, and city and provincial councilors, etc.,” he said. “We will not start an entire investigation, but we will analyze and screen the contents before deciding whether to investigate.” . On the 9th, the Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency, which has jurisdiction over Siheung and Gwangmyeong districts in the third new city, where the association of lawyers for a democratic society and the solidarity of participation exposed allegations of speculation, confiscated and searched the headquarters of LH in Jinju in Gyeongnam, the LH business headquarters in the metropolitan area, and homes of employees After doing so, it is speeding up the analysis of confiscated goods. The Gyeonggi Southern Office is conducting a forensic analysis of 18 mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablet PCs of LH employees confiscated. The special edition expects that when analyzing employees’ mobile phone calls and KakaoTalk/text messages, there will be clues that they used private internal information. As soon as the analysis of the confiscated material is completed, the special edition will summon LH staff to investigate. Previously, the government joint investigation team conducted a full investigation of 14,000 employees of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and LH, and requested 20 LH employees who were identified as suspected cases of speculation to a special copy. Among them, 16 of them are allocated to the Gyeonggi Southern Office, two of the National Investigation Headquarters of the National Police Agency, one to the Gyeonggi Northern Office, and one to the Jeonbuk Office for internal investigations and investigations. The special edition announced on the 12th that about 100 people (16 cases) are subject to internal investigations and investigations due to real estate speculation, but the number of targets is increasing over time, so the investigation is expected to expand. By Jae-ho Lee, staff reporter [email protected]

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