Suspicion has been raised that Kwon Jin-young, CEO of Hook Entertainment, an entertainment agency who is accused of embezzling singer and actor Lee Seung-gi's sound source fees, has been ordering company employees to use corporate cards and receive proxy prescriptions for the past two years.
According to Hook Entertainment's internal data confirmed by SBS Entertainment News, CEO Kwon Jin-young hired Kim, a company employee, over 30 times for two years from June 2020 to June 2022 to act as a representative at a university hospital in Seoul and a rehabilitation hospital in Bundang, Gyeonggi-do. Received a prescription.
Two employees, including Mr. Kim, visited the hospital once a month, received prescriptions related to CEO Kwon’s chronic illness from the medical staff, and then purchased medicines at the pharmacy with a corporate card and delivered them to CEO Kwon.
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According to the Medical Act, it is possible to prescribe by proxy when the patient is unconscious or when the patient's behavior is significantly difficult.
In addition, the range of proxy recipients is limited to the patient's family, senior welfare workers, or correctional facility staff.
According to the non-face-to-face treatment enforcement decree, which was temporarily held from February 24, 2020 due to COVID-19, the scope of proxy recipients was expanded to include acquaintances helping treatment, and it was confirmed that Kwon designated a company employee as a treatment guardian and received prescriptions by proxy. .
In the process, internal data that can be assumed that CEO Kwon Jin-young received drugs through an employee, which was classified as a psychotropic drug and could not be prescribed by proxy, came out.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has restricted proxy prescriptions for psychotropic drugs from November 2, 2021 due to concerns over abuse of narcotic drugs.
In the KakaoTalk chatroom of CEO Kwon and Hook Entertainment employees secured by SBS Entertainment News, Mr. Kim, an employee in charge of running errands for medicine, said, "CEO, I received a 28-day supply of medicine from A university hospital on December 20 last year. Today is the 26th. It is the 1st day, so it is possible to prescribe medicines electronically on the 17th next Monday. Starting from this year, the intensity of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs has increased, and the hospital also knew that it was not possible to prescribe electronically before that. It was not confirmed in advance." did.
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On December 20, 2021, proxy prescriptions for psychotropic drugs were already restricted, so if Mr. Kim was prescribed psychotropic drugs by CEO Kwon, there is a possibility of violating the medical law.
The two hospitals that CEO Kwon attended were places where Hook Entertainment had donated hundreds of millions of won since 2016 or had a close relationship, such as signing business agreements.
In addition, an aide of CEO Kwon, who requested anonymity, told SBS Entertainment News that CEO Kwon was not only prescribed by proxy, but also a sleeping pill-type psychotropic drug through a third party, and was handed over to take it. also raised
In this regard, an attorney said, “If the requirements for non-face-to-face proxy prescription are not met, there is a possibility of violating the Medical Act, and if the proxy is received knowingly, the pharmacist in question may be punished for violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act. If a third party prescribed the drug and delivered it, there is a possibility of violating the Narcotics Control Act to the person involved.”
Regarding this, CEO Kwon's legal representative told SBS Entertainment News, "We received non-face-to-face prescriptions from the two hospitals according to legal formalities and procedures." I received it, and I have never received a sleeping pill that someone else prescribed.”
Regarding the use of the corporate card, the legal representative of Kwon Jin-young, CEO of Hook Entertainment, asked back, "Isn't it a small amount to use medicine?" .
According to a report by Dispatch, an entertainment media outlet, CEO Kwon spent over 42 million won in hospital expenses from 2020 to this year.
In addition, he emphasized that "it is not true at all" about whether there is a special relationship between Kwon and her two hospitals.
(Reporter Kang Kyung-yoon of SBS Entertainment News)