Big Planet Made's manager launches loan police investigation with Taemin and Lee Seung-gi's contact information as collateral (Full Story)
Oct 16, 2024
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On the 16th, Wonhundred, the parent company, had a problem because Mr. A received small loans from more than 40 illegal loan companies and failed to repay them," he said. Then "Loan companies are making threatening calls to the contact information that Mr. A entrusted as collateral and demanding to resolve the financial problem."," he added.
The incident was revealed on the 30th of last month when a private lender contacted WonHundred for the first time. At that time, the company immediately tried to solve the problem by resigning A, but the situation worsened as illegal loan companies threatened again.
The company said "The contents of the threat went beyond mere personal money matters. We have decided to make the situation transparent so that no further damage will occur.' He also stressed that `unlawful loan companies are still making threatening calls to employees and celebrities of their agencies, so they are preparing to report to the police and take legal action.'
It is known that A handed over about 1,200 contacts, including not only employees of the agency, but also celebrities, broadcasting officials, and managers of other agencies. Accordingly, the agency asked the police to report the threatening call immediately.
The following is the full text of the entrance statement
Hello, we're ONE HUNDED.
When A, a manager of Big Planet Made Entertainment, one of One Hundred's labels, failed to pay back small loans from more than 40 illegal loan companies with the contact information contained in his phone as collateral, illegal loan companies contacted and threatened him.
We first received a call from a private lender on September 30th and immediately resigned Mr. A.
I expected that the case would be closed due to Mr. A's personal financial problem, but today (16th), an illegal loan company called us again and threatened to solve the financial problem instead of Mr. A with abusive language.
Therefore, we understand that this case is not simply a matter to be solved by an in-house problem, so we will inform you of all the damage in the hope that there will be no victims in good faith.
First of all, there are about 1,200 phone numbers that A handed over to the loan company, including Big Planet Maid employees, celebrities from our company, officials from the agency where A worked before, entertainment officials including the broadcasting industry that he has known, celebrities from other agencies, and managers.
Illegal loan companies are still leaving threatening calls and texts to employees of Big Planet Made Entertainment, who were former employees. However, as time goes by, it is more likely to contact other numbers on A's mobile phone.
We take the seriousness of the situation seriously and are preparing legal action with police reports against illegal loan companies that have made threatening calls to this day.
We bow down and apologize for the fault of the employee who worked for our company and caused a well-intentioned victim.
Our employees are currently suffering enough damage to the extent that it is impossible to perform their normal work due to fear of indiscriminate phone threats from illegal loan companies.
In the future, the phone number A handed over as collateral could cause victims like us. In the future, if you receive threatening calls or texts from an illegal loan company related to A's loan, please report it to the police immediately.
Once again, we would like to apologize to those whose personal information was leaked due to employees working at our company, and we will do our best to resolve this situation.
mj.cho@sportschosun.com
