[reporter]
Cheong Wa Dae said, "We sent money to North Korea in a virtual currency and the United States caught it."
It also includes detailed information that 'the US Financial Supervisory Authority requested the submission of data to Korea's commercial banks.'
I've tracked down where this story started.
This is a YouTube channel that was named "News" ten days ago.
It has spread rapidly since then.
[anchor]
Then is it true that the U.S. Financial Supervisory Authority has detected this fact?
[reporter]
no. This broadcast is based on the article of one press.
This is it, 'US financial services, concerned about money money laundering ... This is a title entitled 'Requesting Materials to the Bank'.
However, this article has nothing to do with remittances to North Korea.
'Check the internal regulations of virtual money'.
This is a story made exclusively from the title.
I asked financial authorities and commercial banks.
The remittance to North Korea was 'not worth checking'.
[anchor]
I have read the article "I read articles like this" on the petition board. In the end, you saw fake news.
[reporter]
Yes, even one of these claims.
[Youtube channel 'Global Defense News' (last month 30th): Our government bought it. Small Venture Business Department, Postal Service Headquarters, National Pension, etc. I have invested money like this in order to do this work, Cheong Wa Dae, the Financial Supervisory Service ... The problem was that the key supporters were the subject of fraud.
The money that the Cheong Wa Dae sent to North Korea is money made by the government.
They say that in the second half of last year, the National Pension bought a virtual currency and made bubbles.
There are no grounds to look at the various routes that government agencies claim to be armed forces.
[anchor]
But there was also a saying that 'the national pension invested in the beat coin'. Is this not true?
[reporter]
The National Pension Fund invested KRW 2.6 billion in trust funds.
In 2016, investment decisions were made around the time.
And it is true that fund managers have invested this in several places on the virtual currency exchange.
Small and medium-sized venture banking companies started to invest KRW 41.2 billion in funds starting in 2013.
This fund has invested in the exchange.
The purpose of the national pension is to increase the financial resources and the Small and Medium-sized Venture Business Department supports the venture technology.
[anchor]
So, as a result, you indirectly invested in a virtual currency exchange?
[reporter]
The trust manager has the authority to decide where to invest the funds that are collected in the fund.
I have lost all of this money, and this rumor is spreading.
It is not true either.
