대전경찰청이 밝힌 이들의 범죄 행위를 보면 총책 A씨는, 범행을 위해 자금책 · 석유절취시설 설치 기술자 · 현장 관리책 · 땅굴 굴착 작업자 · 운반책 등 공범을 모집하고 이들과 범행 장소 물색, 송유관 매설지점 탐측, 석유절취시설 설계도면 작성, 절취 한 석유를 판매할 주유소 임대 등 사전에 범행을 치밀하게 준비한 다음, 송유관이 매설된 인접 창고를 임차하고, 그곳에서 지하로 4미터를 뚫고 가로 75cm, 세로 90cm, 길이 16.8m가량의 땅굴을 파낸 뒤 송유관에서 기름을 절취하려다 경찰 단속으로 미수에 그친 것으로 드러났다.
또한 이들은 주변 의심을 피하기 위하여 임차한 창고에는 허위의 물류센터 간판을 내걸고 그 내부에 땅굴로 이어지는 곳을 냉동 저장실로 위장하는 한편, 삽과 곡괭이 등을 이용하여 흙을 파내어 소음을 최소화 하였으며, 미리 구입한 대포폰과 대포차를 사용하는 치밀함을 보였다.
경찰은, 한국석유관리원 및 대한송유관공사와 함께 이들의 범행을 확인하고, 지난 6월 20일부터 8월 23일경 총책 A씨, 자금책 B씨, 기술자 C씨, 현장 관리책 D, 자금모집책 E씨, 작업자 F씨 등 6명을 구속하고, 비교적 가담정도가 적은 단순 작업자 등 3명은 불구속으로 검찰에 송치했다.
특히, 기술자 C씨와 현장 관리책 D씨는 과거 한국석유공사에서 함께 근무했던 전력이 있던 것으로 드러났다.
한편, 이들이 범행을 위해 땅굴을 파낸 곳은 초,중학교, 도서관, 요양병원, 아파트 등이 있는 도심 한복판으로, 도심을 가로지르는 4차선 도로 바로 아래에 있어 자칫 지반침하와 붕괴로 인해 대형 인명피해로 이어질 수 있는 상황에서 신속한 단속과 함께 유관기관의 협조로 원상복구 하였다.
대전경찰청은, 지난해 4월경에도 통째로 빌린 모텔 지하실에서 땅굴을 파서 송유관 기름 훔치려 했던 일당 전원을 검거하였으나 또다시 이러한 범행이 잇따르고 있는 것에 주목하고, 관계기관과 함께 송유관 시설을 특별 점검을 하는 한편, 시민의 안전을 위협하고 대형사고로 이어질 수 있는 송유관 관련 범죄에 대하여 적극 수사하여 엄정하게 대처하겠다고 밝혔다.
*아래는 위 기사를 '구글 번역'으로 번역한 영문 기사의 [전문]입니다. '구글번역'은 이해도를 높이기를 위해 노력하고 있습니다. 영문 번역에 오류가 있을 수 있음을 전제로 합니다.<*The following is [the full text] of the English article translated by 'Google Translate'. 'Google Translate' is working hard to improve understanding. It is assumed that there may be errors in the English translation.>
Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency arrests 'bold' oil pipeline theft gang
Dug a tunnel under the road in the middle of the city and attempted to steal oil from the pipeline...
Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency (Chief Hwang Chang-seon) announced on the 4th that it arrested all 9 members of the oil theft gang, including the ringleader, who attempted to steal oil by digging a tunnel from the first floor of the same building to the oil pipeline installation site between February 8 and June 20, after renting a two-story warehouse building in Dujeong-dong, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan-si, and detained 6 of them.
According to the criminal acts of these individuals revealed by the Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency, the mastermind A recruited accomplices such as a financier, an oil extraction facility installation technician, a site manager, a tunnel excavator, and a transporter to commit the crime, and meticulously prepared the crime in advance by searching for the crime site, investigating the location of the pipeline burial, creating a design drawing for the oil extraction facility, and renting a gas station to sell the stolen oil. Then, he rented a warehouse adjacent to the pipeline, dug 4 meters underground, and dug a tunnel measuring 75 cm wide, 90 cm long, and 16.8 m long, and attempted to steal oil from the pipeline, but was caught by the police.
In addition, in order to avoid suspicion from those around them, they hung a false logistics center sign in the rented warehouse and disguised the area leading to the tunnel as a cold storage room, while using shovels and pickaxes to dig the dirt to minimize noise, and showed meticulousness by using a cannon phone and cannon car that they had purchased in advance.
The police, together with the Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority and Korea Oil Pipeline Corporation, confirmed their crimes, and from June 20 to August 23, arrested six people, including the head of the crime, Mr. A, the finance manager, Mr. B, the technician, Mr. C, the site manager, Mr. D, the fundraiser, Mr. E, and the worker, Mr. F. They also sent three simple workers with relatively little involvement to the prosecution without detention.
In particular, it was revealed that technician C and site manager D had previously worked together at the Korea Petroleum Corporation.
Meanwhile, the place where they dug the tunnel for the crime was in the middle of the city center, where there were elementary and middle schools, a library, a nursing hospital, and apartments. It was located right under a four-lane road that runs through the city center, so there was a risk of ground subsidence and collapse, which could have resulted in large-scale casualties. Therefore, they quickly cracked down on the situation and restored it to its original state with the cooperation of relevant organizations.
The Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency has taken note of the fact that similar crimes are occurring again after arresting all of the gang that attempted to steal pipeline oil by digging a tunnel in the basement of a rented motel last April, and announced that they will conduct special inspections of pipeline facilities together with relevant organizations and actively investigate and deal strictly with pipeline-related crimes that threaten the safety of citizens and could lead to major accidents. <저작권자 ⓒ 브레이크뉴스대전충청 무단전재 및 재배포 금지>
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