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It was revealed that an employee of Woori Bank stole 60 billion won from the company for 6 years.

When the bank noticed and reported this fact belatedly, the employee hurriedly surrendered to the police.



Reporter Park Ye-rin covered the story.



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On the night of the 27th, Deputy General Manager A, who was in charge of the corporate sale at Woori Bank, surrendered to the police, claiming that he stole company money.



The amount stolen over the six years from 2012 to 2018 was over 60 billion won.



Most of the embezzled funds were known as down payment from Iran after Woori Bank decided to sell Daewoo Electronics in 2010.



Woori Bank, which led the sale, managed the down payment in a separate account even after the contract was terminated, but it is presumed that Mr. A, who has worked in the department in charge for 10 years, stole it.



[Woori Bank employee: The embezzlement case took advantage of loopholes in the internal system, so (the employee) worked for a long time.

I knew too well what was going on (I was)] There



is also a background in which a long-time crime was only discovered now.



The international lawsuit filed by Iran for the return of the down payment has been going on for four years.



Then, earlier this year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs obtained special permission from the United States, and as the day for remittance to Iran approached, the bank discovered that the deposit account was empty.



Woori Bank, which learned of employee A's embezzlement during an internal investigation into the bank, filed a complaint with the local police station yesterday afternoon.



While the police are investigating whether there is an accomplice, they are trying to figure out how the embezzlement was done and where the stolen money was being used.



The Financial Supervisory Service saw that the scale or method of the embezzlement was unusual, and launched an investigation into Woori Bank.



(Video coverage: Kim Tae-hoon, video editing: Lee Jeong-taek, CG: Hong Seong-yong, Ban So-hee)



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