A 52-person gang that intentionally hits cars that violate traffic signals and steals 200 million won in settlement money (Korea)

Police have arrested an organization that deliberately caused traffic accidents targeting only vehicles violating traffic laws and received hundreds of millions of won (tens of millions of yen) in settlement money.
The Gyeonggi National Police Agency said it had arrested 52 members of a group, including a man in his 20s, on suspicion of violating the Special Act on Prevention of Insurance Fraud.
The suspects were accused of intentionally targeting vehicles violating traffic laws in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, and Nowon-gu, Seoul, between April 2021 and July of last year.
After the accident, he is suspected of receiving approximately 220 million won (approximately 24.41 million yen) from an insurance company as a settlement for medical expenses.
The group uses rental cars to wait in U-turn zones, and if a car in the oncoming lane runs a red light and goes straight ahead, they deliberately cause an accident.
The group selected several locations in advance as places where insurance fraud is easy to commit, such as intersections where traffic lights are often violated, and then
He repeatedly drove the car dozens of times with passengers in order to search for vehicles to be involved in accidents, and changed passengers each time to avoid suspicion from insurance companies.
The drivers of the other car suspected that the accident was deliberate and filed a complaint with their insurance company, but reported the matter to the police out of fear of being punished for violating traffic laws, such as violating traffic signals.
Police plan to analyze dashcam footage from the crashed vehicles, select dozens of cases where deliberate intent is likely, and then refer the organization to prosecutors once they have completed supplementary investigations.