An employee of Woori Bank and his younger brother who embezzled 60 billion won in funds will be sent to the prosecution on the 6th.
According to the police on the 5th, Seoul Namdaemun Police Station will detain Woori Bank employee A and his brother on the morning of the 6th on charges of business embezzlement under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes (Special Police Act). Person A is also charged with forgery of documents under the Criminal Act.
Person A is charged with embezzling 61.452.146,000 won (provisional) three times, including October 12, 2012, September 25, 2015, and June 11, 2018, while serving at Woori Bank for more than 10 years. receive In each of his embezzlement, he was also reported to have forged internal bank documents.
On the 27th of last month, when the bank found out about the embezzlement and sued the police, Mr. A surrendered and was arrested on the 30th. A’s younger brother was also arrested by the police on charges of collusion the next day.
The police are continuing to investigate the witnesses against bank officials and are also tracking the financial accounts of Brother A. It is also being investigated whether there are other accomplices besides his brother.
It is known that most of the funds embezzled by Brother A are contract deposits that Woori Bank must return to Iranian home appliance company Entekhab, which participated in the sale of the old Daewoo Electronics.
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