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[Apha Biz=(Chicago) Reporter Paul Lee] A former director of the Financial Supervisory Service, who was put on trial for taking bribes from Optimus Asset Management, which committed a 1 trillion won fund fraud, was sentenced to prison in the first trial.
The Criminal Agreement Department 23 at the Seoul Central District Court on the 16th sentenced Yoon (63), who was indicted, to one year and nine months in prison, a fine of 30 million won and 4,700 million won, and put him under court custody.
"Not only did he receive money using the status of executives and employees of the FSS, but the methods of the crime and the nature of the crime are not good," the court said. "A prison sentence is inevitable because he did not reflect on himself for disturbing the financial order, such as undermining trust in integrity."
Former director Yoon was indicted without detention in 2018 ∼ 2019 on charges of receiving 4,700 million won and demanding 4,500 million won from Optimus CEO Kim Jae-hyun and others in return for attracting fund investment, delaying the auction process, and introducing and arranging various loans.
Apart from the case, he was indicted on charges of receiving 20 million won from executives and employees in 2014 and 10 million won in 2018 in return for arranging preferential loans or lowering bank sanctions, and was sentenced to two years and two months in prison with four years of probation.
Optimus CEO Kim Jae-hyun, who was accused of investing 1.3 trillion won in account receivables of public institutions and using them to acquire bad loans and turn back funds, was sentenced to 40 years in prison, a fine of 500 million won and an additional fine of 75.17,500 billion won by the Supreme Court in July last year.
Alphabiz Reporter Paul Lee(hoondork1977@alphabiz.co.kr)
