[데일리포스트=장서연 기자] SK Networks Chairman Shin Shin-won, who is accused of raising a large amount of slush funds with funds from the company and affiliates he is serving as its representative, has been arrested.
On the 5th, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Anti-Corruption Investigation Part 1 (Director Prosecutor Jun-cheol Jeon) handed over 11 charges against Chairman Choi, including violations of the Act on aggravated punishment for specific economic crimes (embezzlement).
Chairman Choi is worth about 2235 billion won in the name of promoting individual golf course business, providing false salaries to family and relatives, paying individual paid-in capital increase, and supporting insolvent affiliates at six companies operated by SK Networks, SKC, and SK Telesys. It is accused of embezzlement or appointment.
He is also accused of falsely registering his family and relatives as employees of six companies including SK Networks from 2003 to November of last year, and paying a total of 23.2 billion won worth of salary. It was found that the company’s expenses also covered the 7.2 billion won for hotel villas used by themselves and their families.
In addition, in 2009, SK Telesys provided 15.5 billion won unsecured loans to promote the private golf course business, and in October 2012, SK Telesys issued a bond with a right to acquire new stocks (BW). They tricked them into acquiring BW worth 27.5 billion won.
In addition, over the past several years, they have exchanged 1.4 million dollars worth (approximately 1.6 billion won) in the name of the employees, and took 800,000 dollars worth of foreign currency (approximately 900 million won) abroad without reporting them to the competent customs, and violated the Foreign Exchange Transaction Act. .
Meanwhile, the prosecution is known to have conducted a seizure and search of SK Group offices to investigate whether SK Group was involved in the process of raising the slush fund by Chairman Choi.
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