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| Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee has remained comatose since a heart attack. / Yonhap |
By Oh Young-jin
Financial authorities have set up a task force to investigate borrowed-name accounts that allegedly belong to Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who remains comatose.
For the next two weeks, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) will investigate Samsung Mirae Asset, Shinhan and Korea Investment and Securities.
The main task is to confirm whether the 27 accounts belong to Lee and to check the remaining deposits. The accounts are among 1,500 borrowed-name accounts that the government has ruled are taxable.
The accounts were set up before Aug. 12, 1993, when real-name final transactions were made mandatory. Those who held accounts under others' names were obligated to report to the authorities and convert the accounts.
The task force is composed of experts in money laundering and financial transactions.
Yonhap quoted an FSS official was as saying, "The securities firms in question all reported those accounts were all discarded.
"We will try to repair the discarded computer records or any other way to gain access to the records."
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