Cash bundles found in the defendant's yard who killed lover, revealed to be victim's money

Prosecutors Add Quasi-Fraud Charges to 50-Year-Old Man in Mongolian Woman Murder Case

According to the Gimcheon Branch of Daegu District Prosecutors' Office on the 2nd, bundles of cash were found in the yard of the defendant's residence, who is accused of murdering a woman with an intellectual disability. The prosecution confirmed that the defendant had obtained this money from the victim and additionally indicted him on charges of quasi-fraud.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bong-ju] A bundle of cash was found in the yard of the defendant's house, who is accused of murdering a woman with an intellectual disability. The prosecution confirmed that the defendant had extorted this money from the victim and additionally indicted him on charges of quasi-fraud.

According to the Daegu District Prosecutors' Office Gimcheon Branch on the 2nd, the defendant A (59) was arrested and indicted on charges of murdering and abandoning the body of B (56), a Mongolian woman with an intellectual disability and his lover, and was sentenced to 30 years in the first trial on September 1st.

A, a former taxi driver, strangled B, with whom he had been in a relationship for about 19 months, to death in January and took about 20 million won in cash. B's body was buried in a nearby field.

When the prosecution arrested and indicted A in March, they found two bundles of cash worth about 20 million won and 60 million won buried in his yard.

The 20 million won was confirmed to be money B had withdrawn from the bank and was handed over to A's family.

After investigating the source of the 60 million won, the prosecution found that A deceived B by saying "I will manage the money" and received over 75 million won, of which 15 million won was spent and the rest was buried in the yard.

Meanwhile, B was reported in the media in 2016 as a victim of a "modern-day slave," having worked on a farm for 14 years without receiving wages. Later, she received 150 million won in civil compensation, half of which was given to A.