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The Board of Audit and Inspection has entered into a regular audit of the Financial Supervisory Service.

As a result of our coverage, in this audit, it was confirmed that the Board of Audit and Inspection is also looking into the case of the Discovery Fund, where redemption has been suspended. 



This is the exclusive report by Park Chan-beom. 



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In July 2020, Yoon Seok-heon, then head of the Financial Supervisory Service, attended the National Assembly and said this about the Discovery Fund, which suffered a loss of 250 billion won in investment. 



[Yoon Seok-heon/Director of the Financial Supervisory Service at the time (July 2020): It is different from the Lime Optimus fund, in that there is no fraudulent or such, and there is no such thing as blocking the fund back...

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Last February, the Financial Services Commission announced sanctions against Discovery Asset Management, and as former President Yoon said, the allegation of fraud was dropped from the violations discovered. 



[Lee Eui-hwan/Director of the Discovery Fund Fraud Damage Countermeasures Committee: At the time of the fund subscription contract, he was obligated to explain, or did he only see these basic things and not inspect the rest (I doubted.) 



] A regular audit has begun. 



In particular, it was confirmed as a result of SBS coverage that the Board of Audit and Inspection looked into whether there were any problems with the inspection conducted by the Financial Supervisory Service before deciding on a disciplinary action against Discovery Asset Management. 



In a situation where the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suspected that foreign asset management companies that absorbed the money of discovery fund investors were 'blocking investment', we are investigating whether the FSS properly investigated this part. 



It is said that the target of the investigation includes working-level personnel in charge of inspection of discovery funds, such as the Asset Management Inspection Bureau.



The police, who arrested CEO Jang Ha-won, are expanding their investigation to include IBK, which sold the most discovery funds, and political figures who invested in the fund. 



(Video coverage: Tae-Hoon Kim, video editing: So-Young Lee)