Following Woori Bank, Shinhan Bank also found a large amount of foreign exchange abnormality, so the Financial Supervisory Service had to check and report the foreign exchange transaction operation status to all banks.
Following Woori Bank on the 23rd of last month, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) conducted frequent inspections on large foreign exchange abnormalities that occurred at Shinhan Bank branches on the 30th. It was announced today (3rd).
An official from the Financial Supervisory Service said, “The day (1st), we asked each bank to officially check on its own, as it was judged that there was a problem, such as a large amount of foreign exchange abnormality being revealed at Woori Bank.”
In particular, the FSS is intensively looking into whether Shinhan Bank branches have violated the Anti-Money Laundering Act and the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act in this occasional inspection in relation to transactions involving large amounts of foreign exchange, following Woori Bank.
Previously, Woori Bank reported to the FSS through internal audit that about 800 billion won was transferred from multiple corporations to multiple corporations through foreign exchange transactions in the past year at a branch in Seoul. An on-site inspection has been initiated.
Then, as it was discovered that Shinhan Bank continued to conduct large-scale foreign exchange transactions outside of the usual scope, the FSS started an on-site inspection of Shinhan Bank on the 30th of last month.
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