The in-laws’ guests were all extras and the man was cheated out of RM2 million!
A South Korean man handed over millions of ringgit in savings to his wife to take care of after their marriage, not realizing that the guests and even the in-laws invited to the wedding were all pretending, and that his wife had long since married and had children. By the time he realized he had been cheated, his millions had long been drained by the other party.
The 37-year-old “wife” was charged with fraud and embezzlement and sentenced to three years and six months in prison in the first trial, but the Gwangju High Court rejected her appeal on October 10th.
According to the indictment, the woman is accused of organizing a wedding with the victim man in November 2020 and fraudulently obtaining a huge sum of 570.4 million won (about RM2.018 million) in 38 installments under the pretext of purchasing a new bridal home.
In 2017, the victimized man met the woman at a bar owned by a friend, and the woman lied about all of her education, property, and occupation, claiming that she specialized in traditional Korean dance, ran cram schools to teach children how to dance, and lived in an apartment and a house each in Gwangju and Jangheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, on the basis of her father’s inheritance and the money she earned from her lessons.
The man easily believed her claims, and the two began to socialize, and finally decided to get married. Unexpectedly, from the meeting of both parents to the wedding, all is a scam, the wife’s parents and wedding guests are all she paid for someone to play.
In addition, the woman was married to another man in 2015, the two have children, in 2017, when she met the victim man, legally still the man’s wife, and she has never learned Korean traditional dance, and did not run a cram school, and there is no real estate under the name.
The victimized man was very relieved to hand over all his savings to his wife after the marriage, but he did not expect the money to become less and less, and his wife’s strange behavior also made him feel that something was not right, and finally uncovered the scam.
In dismissing the woman’s appeal, the court held that the woman, in order to conceal her married status, hired someone else to impersonate her identity to organize the wedding, and also swindled a large amount of money, causing irreversible mental harm and financial hardship to the victim and his family, which has not yet been fully recovered, and therefore ruled that the original sentence should be upheld.
