"Report Fraudulent R&D Funding Claims and Receive Up to 3 Billion KRW in Rewards"

Kwonikwi Operates 'Intensive Reporting Period'

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission announced on the 1st that it will operate a "Government Subsidy Fraud Intensive Reporting Period" for three months to eradicate the ongoing fraudulent claims of research and development expenses.

Jung Seung-yoon, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission.
[Photo by Jo Yong-jun]

Reports can be made on five major areas of government subsidy fraud (industry and resources, health and welfare, employment and labor, agriculture, forestry and livestock, environment), and if there is direct recovery or increase of income or cost reduction in public institutions, a reward of up to 3 billion KRW will be paid considering the contribution.

Recently, reports of fraudulent claims related to research and development expenses have been increasing among government subsidy fraud reports. From 2019 to 2023, the total amount recovered due to fraudulent claims of research and development expenses reached 22 billion KRW. Anyone can report government subsidy fraud by attaching evidence and submitting it via visit, mail, or online.

Major cases include ▲ falsely registering resigned employees or acquaintances as researchers to embezzle 170 million KRW in labor costs ▲ embezzling about 2.6 billion KRW by pretending to have directly manufactured low-priced Chinese products ▲ double claiming similar three research and development expenses to fraudulently receive about 600 million KRW ▲ fabricating 15 cases of research and development work that was not actually performed to embezzle about 4 billion KRW in research and development expenses.

Jung Seung-yoon, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, said, “Active reporting by the public is important to detect the covert fraudulent claims of research and development expenses,” and added, “We will thoroughly investigate during this intensive reporting period and actively work to prevent leakage of public finances.”

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