Overstating Quarantine Labor Costs to Pocket 36 Billion Won... Sebang Travel CEO Indicted
The CEO of Sebang Travel, who overcharged labor costs related to COVID-19 quarantine measures to local governments and pocketed 36 billion won, has been handed over to the prosecution.
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According to the police on the 10th, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Metropolitan Investigation Unit and Criminal Mobile Squad sent six people, including CEO Oh of Sebang Travel, to prosecution without detention on the 2nd on charges of fraud under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes and obstruction of official duties.
CEO Oh and others are suspected of embezzling 36 billion won by inflating labor costs through quarantine-related service contracts with 23 public institutions, including local governments, since July 2020.
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They were investigated to have claimed an average of 7 million won per month as wages for quarantine workers but paid only half to the actual workers or inflated the number of quarantine personnel to collect false labor costs.
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