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Meteorological Administration found a bid-rigging activity related to seismic observation equipment and selected another company this year.

However, it was confirmed that 70% of the employees of the new business were from the old business.



The office is also in the same building, but reporter Seo Dong-gyun reported on how this happened.



<Reporter> This is a



cylindrical earthquake observation device.

These devices are installed in 338 places nationwide.



This seismic observation device is a device that provides information so that you can know the magnitude, location, and time of an earthquake.



The Meteorological Agency changed this year from a company that had been responsible for maintaining this critical equipment for nine years.



He was disqualified from bidding because he was exposed to collusion.



However, I found something suspicious while looking at the employee list of the new contractor.



[Isa Lim/National Assemblyman (Hwanno Committee of the National Assembly): It was found that 17 people were working concurrently with the new company and the old company.]



There were about 20 employees each, and 70% of them were the same person. .



The former company's representative is the new company's technical executive, the new company's representative is the former company's manager, and so on.



I went to two companies using the same building up and downstairs.



[((Company A) I came here a little bit, but I don't think there are any people right now....) It would be nice to go to the 5th floor (downstairs).

(The fifth floor is Company B.) That's our subsidiary.]



The problem is that, even though they appear to be the same company in reality, they are not subject to any restrictions on public tenders, as long as they differ in corporate names.



[Gwonseong's / lawyer: it can be judged by the space of the hat company relationships, or may be viewed as virtually the same company in light of the size and number and part-time employees if the business, drafting a part legal]



is negative, corruption It seems necessary to supplement the public bidding system so that there is no time to intervene.



(Video coverage: Choi Sang-woong, video editing: Jo Moo-hwan)