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[Alpha Biz=(Chicago) Reporter Paul Lee] Shilla Duty Free announced on the 19th that it has sued a sales employee of a store that stole luxury watches sold at the store several times and entrusted them to a pawnshop.
According to the industry on the 19th, A, a sales employee at the Shilla Duty Free's Seoul branch, has worked as a watch brand sales employee since August last year and embezzled 12 luxury watches and left them to a pawnshop. The stolen products amount to 440,000 dollars (about 54,0000,000 won) at the consumer price.
It has been confirmed that A stole an expensive watch by replacing it with a counterfeit product instead of an authentic one. The embezzlement was confirmed during the brand's own inventory investigation on July 17. A is known to have used the money obtained from the pawnshop to pay off his personal debt.
The duty-free shop said it had recovered all 12 watches it had left at the pawnshop. Shilla Duty Free understands that neither the genuine product stolen nor the counterfeit product filled by A in the store were sold to ordinary customers or distributed to the outside.
Alphabiz Reporter Paul Lee(hoondork@alphabiz.co.kr)
