After Finding a Wallet and Turning It In at the Police Station... Police Chief Secretly Took 2 Million Won

Transferred to Another Precinct After Embezzlement Allegations Revealed

An incident occurred where a police substation chief secretly took 2 million won from a wallet that had been registered as lost property. The substation chief is now under investigation.

The Seoul Metropolitan Railroad Special Judicial Police announced on the 15th that they have booked Kim, a police sergeant who served as a substation chief under the Seoul Mapo Police Station, without detention on charges of embezzlement in the course of duty.

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In October, Kim, who was then the substation chief under the Seoul Mapo Police Station, secretly took 2 million won in cash from a wallet that a citizen had found and registered as lost property.

The citizen found the wallet on the platform of Digital Media City Station on the Gyeongui-Jungang Line subway and brought it to the nearby substation where Kim was working to report the lost item.

The whereabouts of the 2 million won were revealed thanks to the railroad police who tracked the money after receiving a report of a lost wallet containing cash on the subway. The railroad police identified the crime through CCTV footage.

After the embezzlement suspicion became known last month, it is reported that Kim is currently working as a team member at another police precinct.

A Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency official said, “An internal investigation on Sergeant Kim is currently underway,” and added, “Disciplinary action will be decided based on the investigation results.”

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