"I'll Bring Famous Actors"... Event Firms Claim Hundreds of Millions in Losses After Trusting Former Actor

Police have launched an investigation following a complaint accusing a former actor running an event and performance business of defrauding partner companies by forging appearance contracts for major celebrities.

The Seoul Gangnam Police Station announced that it received a complaint early last month requesting an investigation into individual A on charges including fraud, forgery of private documents, and uttering forged private documents, and recently assigned the case to an investigation team.

According to the complaint filed by the event planning company, A, who serves as an entertainment agency CEO and former actor, presented a false confirmation stating that a prominent actor in his 30s would appear at overseas events such as fan meetings.

The company claimed that they proceeded with the business believing A because he presented event contracts and stamped documents bearing the name of the actor's agency, only to suffer substantial financial losses.

The estimated damage from this incident is understood to be around 200 million won.

The complaint also includes claims that in the past, after trusting A's assurance that the same actor would appear, they proceeded with an overseas event that eventually fell through, resulting in losses amounting to hundreds of millions of won.

The company is urging police to expand the investigation, claiming that A pulled off similar fraudulent schemes regarding overseas fan meetings of other celebrities besides this actor.

It was confirmed that at least four to five other event planning companies besides this one are also claiming they received similar false appearance confirmations.

When combining the damages claimed by these companies, the total reaches the billions of won, and documents presented by A reportedly mostly involved promises of appearances by top-star actors.

Police plan to first conduct questioning of the complainants to verify the specific facts and extent of the damage.

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