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However, even with today's police announcement, many questions surrounding this case remain unanswered. In particular, attention is focused on whether the gift certificate broker, who introduced the victim to the suspect surnamed Shin and took her to Paju, knew about the crime in advance, and if so, to what extent they assisted.
Reporter Je Hui-won has the details.
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Police have uncovered circumstances indicating that Shin, the owner of a cafe in Paju, also attempted a gift certificate transaction in July.
However, the deal fell through as no buyer appeared, and police explained that on August 7, Shin was introduced to a gift certificate broker, A, by a third party.
Police investigation results revealed that during the gift certificate transaction process, Shin deceived others as if there was a "virtual seller" and acted as an agent himself.
Investigations showed that the day before the crime, Shin also lied to broker A, saying, "The gift certificate seller I recruited wants a female as the transaction counterpart."
Police are also investigating whether the prospective buyer who attempted to purchase the forged gift certificates worth tens of billions of won involved in this case actually had the intent to buy and the funds.
Police believe that the victim, who had no prior acquaintance with Shin, was not clearly aware of what role she was supposed to play on the day of the incident.
It has been confirmed that before and after the crime, Shin made video calls to broker A using the victim's mobile phone from places such as a frozen warehouse, and the purpose of these calls is another detail that needs to be further uncovered.
Police explained that the forged 500,000-won department store gift certificates commissioned for printing by Shin had "for filming purposes" written in small letters, but it was difficult to notice the forgery at a glance because it was covered by a paper band.
Police have booked broker A on charges related to securities forgery, namely gift certificate forgery, and are intensively investigating whether broker A knew about the gift certificate forgery in advance.
(Video Editing: Lee Sang-min, Design: Lee Jun-ho, Kim Ye-ji)
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