Seoul, Feb 2 (IANS) A special counsel team has questioned the top executive of a Coupang Corp. affiliate over allegations of unpaid severance pay for company employees.Chung Jong-chul, CEO of Coupang Fulfillment Services (CFS), a logistics subsidiary of Coupang, appeared at the office of special counsel Ann Gweon-seob in the morning to be grilled as a suspect about the company’s severance pay dispute.Chung and his predecessor, Eom Seong-hwan, are suspected of changing the company’s employment ru…
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Seoul, Jan 31 (IANS) The interim CEO of Coupang underwent 12 hours of intensive police questioning over allegations of destruction of evidence linked to a massive data breach at the e-commerce company.Harold Rogers emerged from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Saturday at 2:22 am, declining to answer reporters’ questions on whether he admitted to the charges or intended to leave the country, reports Yonhap news agency.Rogers faces accusations of obstructing official investigations into th…
Seoul, Jan 26 (IANS) Personal information from more than 30 million Coupang customers is believed to have been leaked, a top police official said on Monday, leaving open the possibility that the detention of the company’s interim CEO, Harold Rogers, who has ignored two police summonses, will be sought.Park Jeong-bo, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, made the remarks, refuting Coupang’s own conclusion that the scope of the data leak was only 3,000 cases, reports Yonhap news agency.”It…
Seoul, Jan 18 (IANS) A Seoul city councilor and a former aide to former ruling party lawmaker Kang Sun-woo appeared before police on Sunday for a third round of questioning in connection with bribery allegations tied to nominations for the 2022 local elections. Kim Kyoung, the Seoul city councilor, and the former aide, identified by the surname Nam, separately appeared at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency to undergo questioning, police said, Yonhap news agency reported.The former aide to Repr…
Seoul, Jan 12 (IANS) Ordering a temporary suspension of business operations at e-commerce giant Coupang may be possible, the head of South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said on Monday, amid an ongoing investigation over a recent large-scale data breach at the US-listed company.”If an order is not implemented or if it is deemed insufficient to provide relief to affected consumers, a business suspension is also possible,” Ju Byung-gi, chairman of the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), said in a radio inter…
Seoul, Dec 31 (IANS) Police have begun investigating Rep. Kang Sun-woo of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) over allegations of receiving 100 million won (US$69,400) from a Seoul city councilor, officials said Wednesday.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s public crime investigation team has been assigned to the case after opposition lawmakers filed a complaint against Kang and the council member on bribery charges, Yonhap news agency reported.Kang has been accused of receiving the money via an…