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2005-01-25 02:08:02, Hit : 598
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Probe Expands Over Kia Scandal
By Chung Ah-young
Staff Reporter
The prosecution is trying to confirm allegations that company managers and labor union staff of Kia Motors have collaborated in an illegal job brokering scheme to take large sums of money from jobseekers in return for employment.
Investigators have expanded their investigations to uncover similar jobs-for-money cases with other businesses and their trade unions.
The prosecution yesterday arrested a 44-year-old member of Kia Motors’ labor union, identified as Chung, on charges of taking 180 million won from eight jobseekers in exchange for employment in the firm’s factory in the southwestern city of Kwangju between May and June 2004.
Chung admitted to the charges. According to investigators, about 20 percent of available jobs were allocated to the union in the job scam.
Prosecutors are questioning Chung to verify allegations that other labor union staff have also received money from jobseekers in factories in Kwangju and other places in cooperation with company managers.
Company union leader Park Hong-gui issued a statement to apologize for the union’s implication in the scandal, saying that both the union and management should cooperate to get rid of the illegal practice.
In the southeastern port city of Pusan, a member of a cargo transport union was arrested for taking 17 million won from two men after arranging jobs for them in 2001 and 2002.
The arrest came after the prosecution arrested another staff of the same union on Dec. 13 on charges of receiving 160 million won from jobseekers on six occasions.
The prosecution has expanded the probe to confirm allegations that other leaders of the cargo transport union also pocketed money in similar cases.
Kia Motors’ union is also facing another allegation over the waiting list of jobseekers, newly obtained from a 52-year-old who claimed that he paid 60 million won to union staff last year.
He quoted the union staff as saying that he should wait for a while to have a position because many requests for job had been made.
chungay@koreatimes.co.kr
01-24-2005 22:05
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