{"id":49604,"date":"2021-10-01T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49604"},"modified":"2021-10-01T13:47:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:47:24","slug":"north-korean-official-embezzled-workplace-funds-faces-heavy-economic-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-official-embezzled-workplace-funds-faces-heavy-economic-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean official who embezzled workplace funds faces &#8220;heavy economic punishment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK has learned that North Korean authorities recently sentenced a cadre who embezzled funds from his workplace to \u201cheavy economic punishment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Thursday that a man in his 50s identified by his family name of Kim, an office manager at Hyesan Station, was investigated by prosecutors on charges of embezzlement in early September. \u201cHe was set free after receiving a judgement ordering him to repay triple what he embezzled,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, Kim was named officer manager at Hyesan Station in March of 2014. He was well regarded by superiors and staff alike for his steady workplace management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, problems recently arose as workers filed a stream of complaints with rations and wages suspended for several months. The provincial prosecutor\u2019s office investigated and found that Kim had embezzled a substantial amount of money \u2014 KPW 15 million, or roughly USD 3,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The maximum punishment for embezzling state property used to be forced labor. In many cases, offenders even got off with just warning. Recently, however, North Korea has been punishing offenders by ordering them to pay three to five times what they stole as compensation, regardless of the size of their workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43596\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/00475.MTS_20190521_140327.656-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"labor camp\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/00475.MTS_20190521_140327.656-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/00475.MTS_20190521_140327.656-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/00475.MTS_20190521_140327.656-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/00475.MTS_20190521_140327.656-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/00475.MTS_20190521_140327.656-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/00475.MTS_20190521_140327.656-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/00475.MTS_20190521_140327.656.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Yanggang Province from the Sino-North Korean border. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, Kim was told to pay KPW 45 million, or triple what he embezzled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article 21 of North Korea\u2019s Administrative Punishment Law<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> defines \u201cpunishment of compensation\u201d as \u201can administrative legal sanction applied to institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that have caused damage to the property of the State and social, cooperative organizations.\u201d It instructs that \u201cthe implementation of the punishment of compensation shall be done by the method of causing them to pay the whole, part, or a multiple of the given sum of damage.\u201d*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, prosecutors and other law enforcement agencies, as well as relevant government organizations, enterprises and groups, make it clear that they, too, can inflict \u201cpunishment by compensation\u201d on their own employees who \u201ccause damage to the property of the state and social, cooperative organizations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe prosecutor\u2019s office is stressing that Kim\u2019s punishment by compensation was in accordance with party policy and the law,\u201d said the source. \u201cFrom Kim\u2019s perspective, paying several times [what he stole] could be even more painful than time in prison.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added, \u201cIt seems the case is an example to show what will happen to officials in charge of factories and enterprises, such as managers and accountants, if they mess with state property.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*AGLC4 | \ud589\uc815\ucc98\ubc8c\ubc95 2011 [Administrative Punishment Law of the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (2011)] [translated by Daye Gang]. Link: https:\/\/www.lawandnorthkorea.com\/laws\/administrative-punishment-law-2011\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%eb%b6%81%ed%95%9c-%ed%98%9c%ec%82%b0%ec%97%ad-%ec%98%81%ec%97%85%ec%86%8c-%ec%9e%90%ea%b8%88-%ed%9a%a1%eb%a0%b9%ed%95%9c-%ec%a7%80%eb%b0%b0%ec%9d%b8%ec%97%90-3%eb%b0%b0-%eb%b3%80%ec%83%81%ea%b8%88\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily NK has learned that North Korean authorities recently sentenced a cadre who embezzled funds from his workplace to \u201cheavy economic punishment.\u201d A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Thursday that a man in his 50s identified by his family name of Kim, an office manager at Hyesan Station, was investigated by prosecutors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":43596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3243],"class_list":["post-49604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime-corruption"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>North Korean official who embezzled workplace funds faces &quot;heavy economic punishment&quot; 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