Rep. Jin Jong-oh"13 sports, including shooting, eight charges including sexual violence-match manipulation, and 70 reports"
Sep 09, 2024
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Since the 12th of last month, Rep. Jin, the supreme council member of the People's Power Youth, has opened the 「Sports Corruption Public Information Center" to receive corruption related to the sports industry. Rep. Jin held a press conference at the National Assembly Communication Center in Yeouido, Seoul, on the morning of the 9th and disclosed some of the 70 reports received by the National Sports Corruption Reporting Center. Poor management, including the appointment of the chairman of the Korean Shooting Federation, unfair selection process for racers, damage to other youth athletes, embezzlement of public funds from former chairman of the Korean Sports Association in Canada
Rep. Jin directly targeted the allegations of misconduct by the Korean Shooting Federation, which he had included. "In the process of appointing the former chairman of the Korea Shooting Federation, who resigned on charges of unpaid wages at a hospital, the federation failed to properly verify, resulting in problems such as non-payment of athletes' rewards."The amount of non-payment of the reward is a total of 378.7 million won" he said. "By now, (the reward) has already been paid. It is an act that lowers the morale of players,' he said. `Former chairman Shin said he would dispose of his real estate and pay about 310 million won this year, but this is also a concern because it is only an oral promise and has not been documented.' "In addition, various reports related to irregularities and irregularities were received from within the office," he said. There were also allegations of corruption related to the hiring of the secretariat, and the secretariat is conducting an internal audit of the budget, including allegations of personal corruption" he said.
In addition, Supreme Council member Jin also disclosed allegations of embezzlement of public money by former chairman of the Canadian Sports Council Jae (在), controversy over the transfer of middle school wrestlers to track and field competitions without parental consent, and unfair competition selection process. According to lawmaker Jin, the former chairman of the Korean Sports Council in Canada is accused of embezzling some of the subsidies, including airfare, to be paid to 54 participants in the National Sports Festival last year, and six out of eight wrestlers were suspended from the next semester due to the lack of minimum education as wrestlers from Hwacheon A Middle School in Gangwon Province were summoned to the track and field competition ahead of the final exam. There was also a report that there was a player who suffered disadvantages due to poor administration in the process of selecting candidates for track and field athletes last year.
Rep. Jin also announced the disclosure of additional reports. Lawmaker Jin said, `Today's announcement is some of the more than 70 reports about the relatively clear case of Sisibibi and some of the cases where systematic problems were discovered.' `Significant criminal charges have been filed in 13 sports, including badminton, taekwondo, shooting and soccer.' It is also known that there are shocking contents such as sexual violence and match fixing.
`The time-honored practices and corruption of the sports community are self-portraits of our shameful society,' Jin said. `These are issues that must be addressed to rebuild Korean sports based on common sense and justice. We will root out corruption and corruption in the sports community and take this opportunity to take responsibility and respond to the new birth of the sports community."
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