[이코노믹리뷰=황대영 기자] Tae-seung Son, chairman of Woori Financial Group, and bank leader Jin Ok-dong of Shinhan Bank, received severe disciplinary notice from the Financial Supervisory Service in relation to the Lime Asset Management Fund crisis.
According to the financial authorities on the 3rd, the FSS sent a notice of sanctions in advance to Woori Bank and Shinhan Bank, which are Lime Fund sellers, on the afternoon of that day. At the time of the Lime Fund crisis, Chairman Son Tae-seung, who was the head of Woori Bank, was reportedly suspended from work, and Shinhan Bank Chief Jin Ok-dong was notified of a censure warning.
The level of sanctions against financial company executives is divided into five stages: recommendation of dismissal ▲ suspension of work ▲ reprimand warning ▲ cautious warning ▲ caution. Among them, censure warnings and above limit employment in financial companies for 3 to 5 years. The Financial Supervisory Service is known to have imposed severe disciplinary action for incomplete responsibility over the sanctions. Lime Fund sold 357.7 billion won at Woori Bank and 2769 billion won at Shinhan Bank.
Earlier, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) imposed a suspension of duties on former KB Securities CEO Kim Byung-cheol, former Shinhan Financial Investment CEO, and Na Jae-cheol, former Daishin Securities CEO, even in a sanctions review against Lime Fund-selling securities companies in November. In addition, KB Securities CEO Park Jung-rim was notified of the suspension of his job in advance, but he lowered the level by one level due to a censure warning in the sanctions review.
If such severe punishment is finalized through the Financial Services Commission following a sanctions review on the 25th, it becomes uncertain to challenge the three consecutive appointments of Chairman Son Tae-seung and three consecutive presidents Jin Ok-dong or chairman of the Financial Group. However, as there was a case in which Chairman Son Tae-seung successfully filed a temporary injunction for suspension of effect in an administrative lawsuit after objecting to severe disciplinary action in the Derivatives and Combination Fund (DLF) situation, there is a possibility that he would jump into a lawsuit against the dispute again.