Seongnam City Cracks Down on Fraudulent Claims of Private Project Subsidies

Seongnam City Hall

The city of Seongnam in Gyeonggi Province is investigating fraudulent claims of private business subsidies.

To this end, Seongnam announced on the 18th that it signed a business agreement with the Sujeong, Jungwon, and Bundang Police Stations to eradicate subsidy fraud.

According to the agreement, Seongnam and the three police stations will cooperate in various areas, including ▲operating a joint task force (TF) to eradicate subsidy fraud ▲conducting joint inspections and operating a reporting and tip-off reception desk ▲promoting activities to encourage reporting.

The joint TF consists of a total of 14 members, including the heads of investigation departments from each police station, the head of the investigation support team at Jungwon Police Station, the heads of intelligence teams from the three police stations, the Seongnam city auditor, public relations officer, and budget manager.

Until the end of the year, the TF will intensively receive reports and collect intelligence to detect signs of subsidy fraud and promptly conduct investigations.

Seongnam will provide necessary investigative materials such as subsidy status for this purpose.

Investigation results and information will be shared among institutions to recover the amount of fraudulent claims.

This agreement was made possible at the suggestion of Jungwon Police Station.

Shin Sang-jin, mayor of Seongnam, stated, "According to the audit results of private organization subsidies by the Presidential Office in June, 1,865 cases (31.4 billion KRW) of fraudulent activities were detected out of subsidy projects totaling 1.1 trillion KRW, revealing significant issues," adding, "Through close cooperation between institutions, we will make subsidy projects in the Seongnam area transparent, minimize financial leakage, and strengthen the system to prevent fraudulent claims."

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