Gwangmyeong · Siheung 14 Public Officials Confirmed Land Acquisition for New City Candidates … Inevitable Expansion of Investigation to Gyeonggi-do



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Check-in 2021.03.10 21:03

Demands Increase for “Investigation to Purchase Land for Public Officials to Expand to All of Gyeonggi Province”
Auditor, Gyeonggi-do Clinic, Bucheon General Manager New Town land purchase data insured

It was confirmed on the 10th that 14 public officials from Gwangmyeong-si and Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do, acquired land at the Gwangmyeong-Siheung New Town planned development site with the names of themselves or their families. After employees of the Korean Land and Housing Corporation (LH) suspected speculative land transactions for candidate sites in Gwangmyeong and Siheung, Gwangmyeong and Siheung City announced the results of their own investigations targeting their officials.

Some have raised the possibility that cases of land acquisition by local government officials will be revealed at other candidate sites for the third new city in Gyeonggi-do. It is also noted that Gyeonggi-do Governor Lee Jae-myeong will be a political burden if Gyeonggi-do officials acquire land for candidates for a new city.

Gwangmyeong Mayor Park Seung-won said in a briefing that morning: “5 additional officials have been confirmed to have purchased land in the planned area of ​​the new city, and there are 6 people in total.”

The five Gwangmyeong city government officials whose land transactions were confirmed that day are known to be 2 in 5th class, 2 in 6th class and 1 in 8th class. Their land acquisition years were 1 in 2015, 2016, and 2017, respectively, and 2 last year.



The seedlings are planted in Gwarim-dong, Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do, where allegations of land speculation by LH employees have been raised./Yonhap News

Gwangmyeong-si A public official acquired 334㎡ of land in Okgil-dong last year, B public official acquired 100㎡ of land in Gwangmyeong-dong in 2019, C public official acquired 124㎡ of land in Noonsa-dong in 2016, D Official acquired 1,322㎡ of field in Noonsa-dong last year, and civil servant E acquired 1,089㎡ of field in Gahak-dong in 2015. He did.

Prior to this, it was confirmed that Mr. F, a sixth-level civil servant from Gwangmyeong City Council, purchased 793㎡ of forest in Gahak-dong last year. In Mr. F’s case, an illegal trait change was confirmed and an order was issued to restore him to his original condition. Gwangmyeong City announced that it will take necessary measures, such as disciplinary action, through further investigations.

In Siheung City, it was also confirmed that eight public officials acquired land for the third candidate site of the new city. Siheung Mayor Im Byung-taek announced in a briefing that afternoon that “in the self-investigation process conducted with 2071 public officials belonging to the city, it was discovered that 8 public officials owned the land in the planned area of ​​Siheung. Gwangmyeong and Siheung New Town.

Mayor Lim added: “Seven people voluntarily reported ownership of the land and one was confirmed during the city’s investigation.”

Seven out of eight people were found to own the land on the candidate site for the new city. One was a civil servant on behalf of the owner. Two of the officials whose families are landowners reported having inherited in 1980 and 2015. The number of land acquirers in the last five years was three.

In the self-investigation process, one person who was confirmed to be acquired was a Level 5 civil servant who is currently undergoing merit training, and it was confirmed that he acquired 91㎡ of land in Gwangmyeong City through a auction last October.

It was revealed that 14 public officials from the city of Gwangmyeong and Siheung bought land for the candidate sites in the new city if it was not an investigative agency that has the power to investigate, such as police and prosecutors, but the investigation itself of the city. It is also noted that if the survey is expanded to other candidate sites for the third new city, such as Hanam, Goyang, Bucheon and Gwacheon, as well as the entire Gyeonggi province, government officials will also buy land for the new candidate cities. In the cities of Siheung and Hanam, it was confirmed that a councilor acquired land on a candidate site for a new city in the name of a family member.

Some observers say that if Gyeonggi Province and the Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation (GH) confirm that a public official has acquired land for a candidate site for a new city, it may be a burden on the governor’s presidential campaign. Gyeonggi Gyeonggi, Lee Jae-myung.

In fact, that day, the Gyeonggi-do legislator raised suspicions of acquiring the land for the third candidate from the new city. According to Bucheon City that day, the Audit and Inspection Board obtained data from Bucheon City on the second lot (273㎡) in Daejang-dong, which was recently purchased by Congressman A of the Gyeonggi-do Council.

In 2018, when Clinic A was serving as a councilor in the city of Bucheon, the land was auctioned on his wife’s behalf through the government auction site ‘Onvid’. The price of the successful offer averaged 1.94 million won per 3.3 square meters. a member of the Bucheon City Council Administrative Welfare Committee and was reported to have been a member of the Urban Transportation Committee shortly before.

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