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Seoul rummages through Samsung chief’s borrowed-name accounts
- Collected
- 2018.02.20
- Distributed
- 2018.02.21
- Source
- Go Direct
The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) teamed up with the tax authority to initiate a special investigation into four brokerages Samsung Securities Co., Shinhan Investment Corp., Mirae Asset Daewoo Co., and Korea Investment & Securities Co. holding 27 accounts traceable to the ailing chief of the country’s biggest conglomerate.
The probe came after the Ministry of Government Legislation concluded that 27 out of over 1,500 borrowed-name accounts of Lee, opened before the 1993 legislation that requires all financial transactions to be made in real names, are subject to fines.
Lee cannot be questioned as he has been lying in a coma since 2014 following a debilitating heart attack.
To determine the exact fine, authorities must dig out how much had been in the 27 accounts at the time the 1993 law was passed. Regulators will try to restore the files claimed to have been destroyed and review the borrowed-name account files submitted in the 2008 case in which Lee was convicted for tax evasion on similar charges.
By Kim Dong-eun and Kim Hyo-jin
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