Kumho brother questioned about \30 billion slush fund

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Kumho brother questioned about \30 billion slush fund

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Park Chan-koo, right, chairman of Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., walks to the Southern District Prosecutors’ Office in Seoul yesterday. By Kim Do-hoon

Prosecutors at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday summoned Park Chan-koo, chairman of Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., to question him over an alleged slush fund and making money through inside information.

Park is suspected of having created a slush fund of around 30 billion won ($27.8 million) by paying the company’s contractors for phoney jobs, or overpaying them and then getting the money back.

He is also alleged to have pocketed around 10 billion won by selling stock in an affiliate company, Kumho Industrial, that he and his son owned, using internal company information.

Kumho Petrochemical and Kumho Industrial belong to the Kumho Asiana Group, a major construction and logistics conglomerate chaired by Park’s elder brother Park Sam-koo.

Before entering the Prosecutors’ Office, Park Chan-koo denied all the allegations to reporters and said the accusations against him actually should be directed at Kumho Asiana.

The brothers, two of five sons of Kumho founder Park In-cheon, had a feud over ownership of the group in 2009, and they both ended up resigning from their posts in 2009 before returning to the positions last year. Park Chan-koo claimed Kumho Asiana is at the center of the slush funds scandal, not his company.


By Moon Gwang-lip [joe@joongang.co.kr]


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검찰, 박찬구 회장 소환조사

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