On the 18th, South Korean police said that the former directors of a facility run by a Buddhist organization and where former comfort women lived donated more than 5.6 million yen in Japanese yen left by the deceased former comfort women. I sent the documents on suspicion of embezzlement in business, saying that I had received them illegally.
In May, the House of Sharing, a facility run by a Buddhist organization and where former comfort women live in Gyeonggi Province, near Seoul, the capital of South Korea, was illegally accumulated. Some officials accused them of trying to divert them to purposes unrelated to the comfort women, and police investigations were underway.
According to several media outlets such as a Korean news agency and Union News, local police said on the 18th that two former directors of the facility forged documents and left over 60 million won left by the deceased former comfort women in Japanese yen. It is said that he sent documents on suspicion of embezzlement in business, alleging that he had illegally received more than 5.6 million yen as a donation.
In South Korea last month, a former chairman of another organization that supports former comfort women, a member of parliament of the ruling party, said that he had deceived a subsidy of about 370 million won and about 35 million yen in Japanese yen. The first trial of a trial accused of violating the law has just been held, and a strict eye is being paid to the support activities of former comfort women.