KOR
▲ Ulsan District Prosecutors' Office
A pair of teenage siblings who secretly drugged their father with sleeping pills and used his mobile phone to take out tens of millions of won in loans have been sent to trial.
While police initially referred only the sister's boyfriend to the prosecution on fraud charges, prosecutors confirmed the siblings' complicity through a supplementary investigation.
According to legal circles on July 14, the Criminal Division 1 of the Ulsan District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Lee Ho-seok) indicted the sister, identified as A, and her boyfriend, B, without detention on June 22 on charges of robbery and computer fraud.
The younger brother of A was referred to the juvenile division of the court on the same charges.
In 2024, the group mixed sleeping pills into coffee and gave it to their father, who is in his 40s. After he fell asleep, they used his mobile phone to take out approximately 30 million won in bank loans and withdrew a total of about 40 million won from his account to purchase gold.
It was discovered that they subsequently sold the gold at a jewelry store to obtain cash, which they spent on expenses such as skin care treatments.
The crime was uncovered when the father woke up, realized his children were missing, and filed a missing person report.
Police located the siblings and the boyfriend, B, within one day and conducted an investigation. However, they only referred B to the prosecution on charges of computer fraud for taking out the loans using the mobile phone.
Although B confessed to A's use of sleeping pills during the police investigation, the case was closed without further inquiry after A claimed she had not participated in the crime and her younger brother stated that his sister was not involved.
However, the prosecution confirmed the siblings' complicity through a supplementary investigation in November of last year.
When the siblings and the boyfriend were confronted during a face-to-face interrogation, the siblings confessed, stating, "We ground up sleeping pills prescribed at a hospital and mixed them into our father's coffee."
The prosecution determined that A's act of drugging her father to render him unable to resist, and then stealing his phone to take out loans, constituted robbery. Consequently, they indicted her along with B.
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