Dead cows and cows 'swap'...a large sum of insurance money

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In the ears of cows raised in farms, there are earmarks such as identification cards for people.

A number of livestock farmers have been caught trying to earn or receive tens of millions of won in insurance money by swapping the earmarks of dead and live cattle.

This is the first case in the country.

Reporter Kim Min-sung reports.

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The police come in to the Korean beef congratulatory speech.

I find something in the cabinet, and the ones that were piled up and stored are not yet sweet.

[Insurance Fraud Livestock Manufacturer: It's refitted, refitted. Green earmarks. (Why did you take this so much?) If you look at them, there are a lot of earmarks that are cut off. It falls off easily.]

An earmark is a genealogy, a copy of resident registration, and a resume that contains various information such as ancestry and country of origin.

According to the beef history system, edible conch must be worn on both ears until birth and death, but anyway, it is easy to see cows without earmarks in this barn.

The owner took it off on purpose, but it simply became an unidentified cow.

It changes the ear of a cow that has been urgently slaughtered due to illness or died at all, and the ear of a live cow insured by livestock accident insurance.

Other than confirming the death of the cow at the scene, the insurance company tried to take advantage of the fact that it was difficult to immediately confirm which cow died.

As a result of police cutting off the tail hair and comparing the DNA, it was found that the vendor actually illegally burned 34 million won in insurance for two months.

The livestock farmer in his 30s in the video confessed, "It was because the price of feed went down and the price of feed went up, so it was economically difficult."

[Shim Nam-jin / Team leader of Jeonbuk Police Agency: Reissuance attributes must be checked by the staff of the Korea Federation of Trade Unions and attached. However, it is confirmed that this case was not attached at the site.]

This is the first time in the country that such a method has been exposed to the surface.

Since then, the investigation has grown, and 22 more livestock farmers have been caught in Jeollabuk-do alone.

Two people, including the branch manager, were also handed over to the prosecution after confirming the case of participating in the cooperation to prevent this.

The police told the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs to consider introducing electronic chip earmarks that are put in the cow's body instead of the printed plastic earmarks used now.

I'm Kim Minsung of YTN.