[Exclusive] Osstem embezzlement employee arrested... "Chairman's orders, hand over gold bars"

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An employee of an implant company who is accused of embezzling more than 180 billion won of company money has been arrested by the police. Our investigation confirmed that the employee was claiming that there was an instruction from the president in this case.

Let's take a look at the exclusive coverage of reporter Son Hyung-an and ask more questions.

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A former financial officer at Osstem Implant, who is accused of embezzling 188 billion won in company money, is being sent to the police station.

[Mr. A / Former Osstem Implant employee: (Why did you embezzle it?) … … .]

On the night of the 5th (the 5th), five days after being accused of embezzlement, he hid himself in a residential area in Paju, Gyeonggi-do and was arrested by the police.

A full-fledged investigation into the identity of the suspect started this morning in the presence of Mr. A's lawyer.

It is known that Mr. A admits to a significant part of the allegation of embezzlement.

However, as a result of SBS coverage, it was confirmed that the company's superiors were involved in the background of the crime.

A's lawyer revealed in a phone call with SBS that he suspects that the chairman of Osstem Implant was instructed in the process of determining the size of the embezzled funds and purchasing gold bars.

Although there is no concrete evidence, the lawyer explains that Mr. A said that he had personally received instructions from the chairman and handed the chairman about half of the gold bars.

It is that Mr. A, who is only an employee of a company, cannot secretly withdraw large amounts of company money without specific instructions from his superiors.

The lawyer said that it is presumed that the situation went wrong because Mr. A suddenly disappeared, and said that Mr. A is currently calm.

Osstem Implant said that the chairman of the company did not intervene or give any instructions, and there was no intervention from superiors.

The police also summoned Mr. A's wife and sister, who received the building gift from Mr. A, as suspects this afternoon and conducted an investigation.

(Video editing: Lee Jung-taek, VJ: Roh Jae-min)

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Reporter Son Hyung-an who covered this content is here. 

[Reporter Son Hyung-an: The company released a statement this afternoon stating that there are speculations and speculative rumors that there is an internal superior intervention. As a result of the upper-level investigation, there was no upper-level intervention, and in particular, the president explained that he did not intervene or give any instructions in relation to this situation. At the same time, the company's official position is that, as the suspect's new recruits are secured, they will actively participate in the police investigation and do everything possible to recover the embezzlement money. This is completely contrary to Mr. A's claim that he received specific instructions from the president. Whether there was an actual president's intervention or whether he somehow gave false testimony to a lawyer appointed to receive a commutation is expected to be revealed later through a police investigation. Now the first investigation has been made. It seems that it will take a little longer to find out the truth.] 

[Reporter Son Hyung-an: The first investigation was conducted today.

The police plan to apply for an arrest warrant as early as tomorrow.

If Mr. A's new recruits are secured, future investigations are expected to be divided into two main categories, accurately grasping the circumstances of the crime and focusing on the whereabouts of the embezzlement.

Police have already recovered a significant amount of gold bars from Mr. A's residence yesterday.

In addition, a freeze action is currently in place to prevent deposits and withdrawals by specifying accounts suspected of embezzling 188 billion won.

The police are also currently investigating whether there is any suspicion of embezzlement of money related to the buildings that Mr. A donated to his wife and sister.

If the correlation is confirmed, it is expected that measures will be taken in the future to prevent the arbitrarily disposing of the building through confiscation and preservation measures.] 

(Video editing: Lee Jung-taek)