Embezzlement with deposit ‘blocking’… Saemaul Geumgo, self-audit following job suspension
An employee of Saemaul Geumgo who embezzled at least 1.1 billion won, including customer deposits and insurance product subscription fees, turned himself in to the police.
According to the police on the 25th, the Songpa Police Station in Seoul recently booked a Saemaul Geumgo employee in his 50s on charges of embezzlement under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes and is investigating.
It is said that Mr. A confessed to feeling under pressure when internal embezzlement of a company or bank was caught one following another.
Person A, who has worked at a branch for over 30 years, is known to have secretly robbed customers of deposits while signing up for financial products.
He was found to have used the ‘back-blocking’ technique of repaying the maturity deposits of existing customers with the deposits that customers leave when they sign up for a new financial product.
The branch estimates that only the amount that has not been reimbursed to customers is 1.1 billion won.
The police plan to determine the final amount of embezzlement following identifying the deposits that Mr. A secretly stole and ‘recovered’ through account tracking.
It is also planned to confirm the use of the embezzlement money once morest Mr.
The police secured a statement that A’s superior also participated in the crime, and he also booked him.
It is known that Saemaul Geumgo temporarily suspended Mr. A’s duties and started its own audit.
/yunhap news
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