FSS looks at nepotistic bank hiring practices

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FSS looks at nepotistic bank hiring practices

Korea’s financial watchdog has started an inquiry into allegations that some banks gave special favors to some job candidates related to senior executives, sources said Friday.

The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) mobilized a team of 30 inspectors Tuesday to begin investigating suspected hiring-related wrongdoing by 11 commercial lenders, including such major players as Kookmin, KEB Hana, Shinhan and Nonghyup.

The initial investigation was to be concluded later Friday.

The FSS investigators visited the offices of hiring executives and working-level officials, searching their computers and collecting necessary data, according to the sources.

The on-site inquiry marks a far cry from the watchdog’s normal probes into banks, which call for them to submit necessary data.

“Inspectors carried out the on-site investigations,” an FSS official said, “since a usual document-based examination makes it hard to detect hiring-related irregularities perpetrated clandestinely.”

Indeed, affected banks have reported to the watchdog that internal probes have found no evidence of wrongdoing in their hiring processes.

The watchdog has reportedly detected several cases of hiring irregularities involving children of former and incumbent bank executives, while planning to refer some of them to the prosecution for further investigation.

Meanwhile, the FSS itself has been under criticism after state auditors discovered in September that senior officials at the service gave special treatment to some job candidates related to politicians or senior financial executives. YONHAP
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