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It was belatedly reported that allegations of stock price manipulation, which reportedly approached singer Lim Chang-jung and other celebrities and caused enormous damage, also approached broadcaster Noh Hong-chul.

According to an entertainment industry insider, some investors who entrusted the money bought and sold stocks and manipulated the stock price by adjusting the market price, resulting in more than 1,000 victims, and broadcaster Noh Hong-chul almost suffered damage.

It turned out that Mr. A, who was one of the members of the alleged stock price manipulation party, ran a golf academy in Seoul's Gangnam area under the nickname "Top Star Professional Golf Pro" and encouraged many celebrities, including Noh Hong-chul, to invest in golf lessons in the name of making close friends.

In response, Noh Hong-chul's closest aide said, "Mr. A, like other celebrities, approached Noh Hong-cheol through golf lessons. It is true that while I was learning golf there, I was encouraged many times to continue investing in stocks," he said, "but Roh Hong-cheol did not invest because he thought that Mr. A, even though he was young, was ridiculously big, and that he was curious about making an investment proposal." He acknowledged that he had received an investment offer.

"I think Roh Hong-cheol had a more meticulous and realistic style than it looked, so he didn't sway back from such temptations." "The only financial transaction I made with Mr. A was to cut off my membership for about 2 million won for golf lessons for 3~100 months. No more financial transactions have been made with them, and no accounts have been investigated by investigative agencies. It has nothing to do with this incident." He stressed.

Financial authorities are investigating whether the stock price was manipulated after shares plummeted amid a flurry of sales from foreign brokerage firm SG (Société Générale) Securities. According to the Financial Services Commission, the Capital Market Research Unit had been looking into the matter for a long time.

Some allege that the party, which used to conduct a transactional transaction in which buyers and sellers set prices and bought and sold shares at a certain time to raise the stock price, knew about the financial authorities' investigation in advance and hastily disposed of the sale.

Singer Lim Chang-jung invested a total of 30 billion won in the name of himself and his wife in the alleged gang, but when the stock crash caused great damage, he said, "I am also a victim." I am appealing. Another singer, Mr. A, complained of damage, saying, "I invested because Lim Chang-jung invested, but I feel like I was scammed."

The Seoul Southern District Prosecutor's Joint Financial and Securities Crime Investigation Division banned 10 people suspected of stock price manipulation from leaving the country in connection with the incident. They are suspected of making clearance transactions on mobile phones opened in the name of investors.

(SBS Entertainment News reporter Kang Kyung-yoon)