[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Cho Hyung-joo] A couple in their 20s who deliberately caused a traffic accident while carrying their 4-month-old baby and collected insurance money have been arrested by the police.
On the 28th, Gwangju Dongbu Police Station announced that they arrested A (20) on charges of deliberately colliding with a vehicle that violated traffic regulations to collect insurance money (violation of the Special Act on the Prevention of Insurance Fraud) and booked his accomplice wife without detention.
The couple is accused of deliberately colliding with a signal-violating vehicle twice, on August 31 and October 10 last year, near an intersection in an apartment complex in Sansu-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, and collecting about 16 million won in insurance money.
It is known that they committed the first crime while carrying their 4-month-old baby in the vehicle. Furthermore, it was confirmed that A caused an accident alone using the same method on July 26 this year and collected 1.7 million won in insurance money.
A admitted to the charges of causing two accidents last year but reportedly denies the charge related to the accident that occurred in July this year.
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