45 Million Won Rewarded for Reporting R&D Fund Fraud... 32 Whistleblowers Receive 300 Million Won in Total

Recently, whistleblower A received a reward of 45 million won for reporting the head of a company who had fraudulently received research and development funds. The company had registered participating researchers under false pretenses while carrying out a public institution's research and development project, thereby receiving subsidies.

Kim Eungtae, Director of the Audit Protection Bureau at the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, is speaking at the briefing room of the Government Sejong Complex. Photo by Yonhap News

Whistleblower B, who reported the head of a company that continued to claim youth employment subsidies by pretending that an employee who had resigned was still working, also received a reward of 20 million won.

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission announced on August 26 that it had paid a total of 300 million won in rewards to 32 whistleblowers of corruption and public interest violations this month.

The amount recovered by public institutions as a result of these reports was approximately 3.1 billion won.

By field, rewards for employment-related cases accounted for 160 million won, or 55.5% of the total, followed by research and development (about 60 million won, 21.2%) and welfare (about 20 million won, 8.2%).

In addition, about 7 million won in additional rewards was paid to 600 whistleblowers who had previously reported cases where public institutions had not fully recovered income, but additional recovery has since been made.

Kim Eungtae, Director of the Audit Protection Bureau at the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, said, "We will actively provide rewards to whistleblowers to encourage more reports of corruption and related acts."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.