Three Executives of the Korea Swimming Federation Sent to Prosecution Over Hiring Corruption Allegations

Jung Chang-hoon, president of the Korea Swimming Federation, and federation executives have been handed over to the prosecution over allegations of corruption in the recruitment of new employees.

According to the police on the 15th, the Songpa Police Station in Seoul recently sent President Jung, Secretary General A, and Director of General Affairs B, three federation executives, to the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office on charges of obstruction of business.

They are suspected of being involved in irregularities during the recruitment process for new employees at the Swimming Federation's Secretariat in 2021. At that time, the federation's personnel committee decided to pass 10 candidates in the document screening stage, which was five times the number of new hires (2 people), but the Secretariat arbitrarily passed 19 candidates. The police believe that President Jung and others increased the number of successful candidates in the document screening stage arbitrarily to select specific individuals.

Allegations of recruitment corruption in the Swimming Federation were raised during the 2021 National Assembly Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee's audit of the Korea Sports Council. At that time, Kim Ye-ji, a member of the People Power Party, pointed out, "One of the successful new hires' mother and the then Executive Director (Mr. A), who had approval authority in the recruitment process, previously served together as executives at the Gyeonggi-do Swimming Federation," adding, "The other successful candidates have experience working as swimming coaches with Mr. B."

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