서울중앙지검 '전두환 일가 미납추징금' 특별집행팀(팀장 김형준 부장검사)이 전두환 전대통령의 부인 이순자씨  명의의 30억 원짜리 개인연금 보험에 대해 압류 조치를 취한 것으로 알려졌다.
    
검찰이 전씨의 미납 추징금 환수를 위해 전담팀을 만든 이후 전씨 일가의  현금성 자산을 압류한 사실이 알려진 건 이번이 처음이다.
   
22일 금융계와 검찰 등에 따르면 특별집행팀은 이씨가 서울 서대문구 대현동에 있는 NH 농협은행 신촌지점에 30억원의 개인 연금 보험에 가입한 사실을 확인, 최근 법원으로부터 영장을 발부받아 압류한 것으로 알려졌다.
   
이씨는 이 연금 보험을 통해 매달 1천200만 원을 받았는데 검찰의 압류로 추가 지급이 정지된 상태이다.
    
이씨가 가입한 상품은 일정액을 맡겨두면 주기적으로 이자와 원금 일부를  지급하는 연금 보험 형태로 알려졌다. 따라서 이씨의 가입 시기에 따라 검찰이 압류한 돈의 규모는 달라진다.
   
검찰은 이씨가 연금보험에 넣은 30억원의 출처를 추적하고 있다. 검찰이 이씨 돈을 실제 추징하려면 자금원이 전씨 비자금이거나 비자금에서 유래한 불법  재산임을 입증해야 한다.
   
검찰은 30억원이 거액인 만큼 현금으로 입금됐을 가능성은 작다고 보고 해당 계좌 및 연결계좌를 정밀 추적하고 있는 것으로 전해졌다.
   
현금성 자산 압류와 관련, 검찰은 법원으로부터 영장을 발부받아 국내 보험사들에 전씨 내외와 직계 가족, 친인척 등의 보험 계약 정보를 넘겨달라고 요청한  상태이다.
    
국세청도 보험사 세 곳에 전씨 일가의 금융거래정보를 제공해 달라는 요구서를 보냈다.
    
검찰과 국세청이 전씨 일가의 현금성 자산 추적의 고삐를 죔에 따라 추가로  현금성 압류 재산이 나올 가능성이 커 보인다. (연합뉴스)

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Prosecution seizes insurance product of ex-president's wife

Prosecutors have seized an insurance product belonging to former President Chun Doo-hwan's wife as part of efforts to collect a massive fine he owes the state, sources at the prosecution said Monday.
  
The move is part of intensifying efforts by the prosecution to find concealed assets of the former president, who was ordered by the top court in 1997 to return to the state coffers 220 billion won (US$196.8 million) that he was found to have accumulated during his military rule from 1980 to 1988.
  
He has so far paid only a quarter of the total, with some 167.2
billion won remaining unpaid. He refused to make the payment, saying he was nearly penniless.  

Suspecting that assets of Chun might be concealed in diverse insurance products under the names of his family members, the prosecutors have seized the personal pension insurance worth 3 billion won opened under the name of former first lady Lee Soon-ja, they said.
  
The insurance will be turned over to the state if it is found to have been purchased with the former president's money, sources said.
 
It marks the first time that cashable assets of Chun's family have been seized since the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office formed a task force in May to collect the unpaid fines.
  
The investigation into Chun's assets has been gaining traction recently since the National Assembly passed a bill in June aimed at extending the statute of limitations on forfeiting and imposing fines on public officials' illegal wealth to 10 years from the current three.
  
Under the revised law, Chun will be required to pay the remainder of his fines by October 2020, not October of this year.
  
Last week, a team of 90 prosecutors, tax collectors and police investigators raided Chun's residence in western Seoul to search for hidden assets such as paintings, porcelain and expensive artifacts.
  
Prosecutors said they will try to determine the authenticity of some 500 pieces of art obtained from Chun's house and the head office of a publishing house run by his eldest son, Chun Jae-kook.
 
Among the pieces of art are works believed to be by 48 famous artists including South Korean painters Cheon Kyoung-ja and Kim Jong-hak, Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, and Italian sculptor Mauro Staccioli.
  
If these pieces are authentic, their combined value is expected to reach up to tens of millions of dollars.
  
On Monday, the prosecution office raided the residence and offices of one of Chun's close aides, who is suspected of acting as a proxy to purchase expensive artworks for the former president and his family.
  
A team of prosecutors and investigators seized documents and accounting books at three different sites across the country.
  
Prosecutors also suspect that the aide managed the former president's assets allegedly hidden in borrowed-name bank accounts.
  
The 1979 military coup propelled Chun, then an army major general, into a power vacuum created by the assassination of former President Park Chung-hee, the father of the current president, Park Geun-hye.
  
Meanwhile, former President Roh Tae-woo, who replaced Chun as president, was also ordered by the top court to pay back 260 billion won that he was found to have stashed away during his rule.He has some 23 billion won left to be paid, according to government officials. (Yonhap News)