Un angajat al Băncii Busan din Coreea de Sud deturnează 1.1 milioane de dolari și investește în Bitcoin: raport

An employee on the foreign exchange team of South Korea’s BNK Busan Bank allegedly embezzled 1.48 billion Korean won (US$1.1 million) in customer funds to invest in Bitcoin, local media reported.

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Fapte rapide

• The employee, whose name was not released, reportedly embezzled the money over several occasions from June 9 to July 25 this year by depositing funds customers received from overseas into a personal account belonging to his/her romantic partner.  

• Mass-media locală raportate the employee invested the misappropriated funds in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

• BNK Busan Bank will take legal action against the employee along with a self-audit, according to its dezvăluire.

• Nu au fost mai mult 10 cases of embezzlement perpetrated by bank employees this year in South Korea, where one employee at Woori Bank allegedly embezzled nearly 70 billion won (US$53.6 million) from 2012, only to be discovered earlier this year.

• South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service is currently preparing stricter guidelines for the internal control system within banks to prevent further incidents.

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