Police Book Six GIST Employees for Recruitment Manipulation and Corporate Card Misuse

Current and former employees of a research institute under the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) are under police investigation for falsifying recruitment documents for research positions and misusing corporate credit cards for personal purposes.

Gwangju Bukbu Police Station.

On October 28, the Gwangju Bukbu Police Station announced that it has booked six individuals-three current and three former employees of the Korea Institute of Culture Technology-without detention on charges including occupational breach of trust, fraud, and obstruction of official duties by fraudulent means.

Four of them-three current employees and one former employee-are accused of manipulating the document screening process for the recruitment of two research workers. Although the two highest-scoring candidates should have been selected, they instead hired the third-ranked applicant. Investigations found that they altered the screening scores to hire a specific candidate.

Additionally, two other former employees are suspected of misappropriating approximately 11 million won by using corporate credit cards for personal expenses or embezzling usage fees for goods intended for hearing-impaired individuals on 28 occasions from November 2022 to recently.

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