Police may search Chongryon headquarters Wed.TOKYO, Nov. 27 Kyodo(EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. : ADDING INFO) The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD MPD maximum permissible dose. MPD abbr. 1. maximal permissible dose 2. multiple personality disorder Multiple personality disorder (MPD) ) may search the headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on Wednesday in connection with a suspected embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. case involving the failed Chogin Tokyo credit union, investigation sources said Tuesday. The MPD has already questioned two senior officials of Chongryon, a group of Korean residents in Japan who are loyal to Pyongyang, over the suspected embezzlement of more than 1 billion yen by former Chogin Tokyo head Chong Gyong Saeng, 64. The two Chongryon officials are suspected of instructing former Chogin Tokyo officials including Chong to illegally divert the funds by disguising loans. Chong, who was arrested Nov. 8 on suspicion of obstructing a 1998 Tokyo metropolitan government financial inspection of the union by withholding Withholding Any tax that is taken directly out of an individual's wages or other income before he or she receives the funds. Notes: In other words, these funds are "withheld" from your wages. information about borrowers, has admitted to police the embezzlement was carried out at the request of the Chongryon officials, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the sources. But one of the two officials, who has been hospitalized, has denied involvement in the case, the sources said. The other official, 63, is a former deputy head of Chongryon's finance bureau. Chong allegedly embezzled em·bez·zle tr.v. em·bez·zled, em·bez·zling, em·bez·zles To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust. the money from the failed credit union from 1994 though 1998 by pretending to have extended more than 20 loans to firms and individuals. The police believe 20% of the funds embezzled went to Chongryon. The MPD is expected to serve fresh arrest warrants on Chong on Wednesday on suspicion of embezzling 800 million yen, they said. |
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