Park Seong-hoon "Despite the repatriation of 73 members of a Cambodian criminal organization, recovery from damage is unknown."

Although the government promoted the repatriation of 73 suspects from a Cambodian criminal organization as a major achievement, it was pointed out that it did not disclose the amount of compensation the victims actually received.

According to data received from the Office for Government Policy Coordination on the 13th by People Power Party lawmaker Park Seong-hoon, a member of the National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee, the collection and preservation measures taken by the pan-government special response task force for transnational crimes to date in connection with the repatriation of Cambodian suspects are worth 1.434 billion won.

However, regarding the refund decision, actual payment amount, and unrecovered amount for each victim, he replied, "We cannot respond as the refund and payment are not decided as the trial is currently in progress."

Collection preservation is a process that prevents the proceeds of crime from being disposed of, and does not mean that the victim actually received the money back.

Last year, in response to the death of a Korean college student in Cambodia, the government launched a special task force to respond to transnational crimes and dispatched a total of eight people from six agencies, including one person each from the Financial Services Commission, the National Intelligence Service, the Prosecutors' Office, the National Tax Service, and the Korea Customs Service, and three from the National Police Agency.

The government has presented not only the repatriation of a group of suspects to Cambodia, but also the temporary extradition of drug offenders imprisoned in the Philippines and response to a scam organization in Kazakhstan as achievements in government-wide cooperation.

In particular, pre-indictment confiscation measures worth 67.9 billion won were taken for 843 scam crimes, including voice phishing, between January and August of this year.

Rep. Park said, “How much crime proceeds were locked up and how much money was actually returned to victims are completely different indicators,” and added, “The government should not only tout the number of people repatriated and the amount of crime proceeds recovered as achievements, but should also transparently manage and disclose the actual amount of damage recovered and the amount of unrecovered damage.”