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[Alpha Biz= Reporter Kim Sangjin] The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has imposed mass sanctions on over 40 insurance agents affiliated with a major insurance company and corporate insurance agencies (GA) for filing false accident reports.
According to financial industry sources on the 10th, the FSS Insurance Fraud Response Team recently took disciplinary actions such as business suspensions (90-180 days) and registration cancellations against 49 individuals involved in insurance fraud, including insurance company and GA-affiliated agents. The sanctioned individuals include agents from major insurance companies such as Samsung Life, Samsung Fire & Marine, DB Insurance, Hanwha General Insurance, and Shinhan Life.
One insurance agent falsely reported an accident involving their own vehicle colliding with another car driven by a friend's child, who was driving a Benz and crashed into a guardrail. This agent fraudulently claimed insurance compensation amounting to 50 million KRW. Another agent conspired with eight others to deliberately cause traffic accidents, falsely reported them as genuine accidents, and fraudulently obtained insurance payouts totaling millions of KRW from two insurance companies, leading to their registration being cancelled by the FSS.
Instances were also uncovered where agents fraudulently obtained insurance payouts by obtaining false diagnosis certificates. Examples include issuing false medical confirmation documents for days when no actual treatment was received or falsely recording separate surgery dates for multiple dental implants, thereby fraudulently obtaining insurance payments.
In addition to these cases, there were instances where individuals falsely claimed hole-in-one incidents during golf rounds, subsequently canceled the approvals after making fraudulent payments, and obtained insurance payouts amounting to several million KRW.
The FSS also imposed mass sanctions against over 20 GA-affiliated agents from companies such as A Plus Asset, Prime Asset, and C&H Asset. Particularly, the CEO of C&H Asset received a disciplinary warning for submitting false credit card receipts to fraudulently obtain 800,000 KRW, which limits their employment opportunities in financial companies for a certain period due to the disciplinary warning.
AlphaBIZ Kim SangJin(letyou@alphabiz.co.kr)
