The prosecution is investigating SK Networks Chairman Shin Shin-won who is suspected of raising slush funds today (7th).
According to the legal profession, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office, Section 1 of the Anti-Corruption Investigation (Prosecutor Jeon Joon-cheol) summons Chairman Choi as a suspect this morning to investigate.
Chairman Choi is the chairman of SKC from 2000 to 2015, and chairman of SK networks from 2016.
The Financial Information Analysis Institute (FIU) captured the suspicious flow of KRW 20 billion in SK Networks in 2018 and handed over the related details to the prosecution.
This case was reassigned to the first anti-corruption investigation in the second half of last year after long-term account tracking and internal investigations were conducted by the Fair Trade Investigation Department of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.
Since then, the prosecutors' prosecutors' office has been charged with embezzlement under the Act on aggravated punishment for specific economic crimes, and has confirmed whether Chairman Choi mobilized affiliates to form slush funds and then deprived them abroad.
In order to secure the evidence necessary to prove Chairman Choi's allegations, in early October last year, SK Networks, SKC's Suwon headquarters and Seoul office, SK Telesys headquarters, Chairman Choi's residence, and the Central Bureau of Taxation were seized and searched to obtain accounting data and computer hard disks. We secured them, and we summoned employees of affiliates in turn to investigate.
Chairman Choi is the son of the late Chairman Choi Jong-Geon, who founded SK Group, and the cousin of SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won.
(Photo = Yonhap News)