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Ex-Chogin execs plead guilty to breach of trust

KOBE, Japan - The Kobe District Court on Feb. 8 holds the first hearing in the trial of Lee Bom Rak, a former chairman of a Korean credit cooperative association, and six other defendants on charges stemming from illegal lending practices. All seven defendants pleaded guilty to charges of breach of trust.

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Pro-Pyongyang group's ex-exec held on breach of trust

TOKYO, Japan - Li Bom Rak (R), former chairman of the Korean Credit Unions' Association in Japan, leaves his home in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on Dec. 5 with investigators for questioning. Li was arrested later in the day on suspicion of financially damaging Chogin Kinki Credit Cooperative, which collapsed in December last year.

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Chongryon executive arrested over alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters and photographers gather in front of the building of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 28 after Kang Young Kwan, a Chongryon executive, was arrested by police in connection with the 820 million yen embezzlement case. Kang is suspected of instructing former top officials of the failed Chogin Tokyo credit union to embezzle the money from the union's funds.

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Ex-Chogin Kinki official grilled over financial probe

AMAGASAKI, Japan - An Jong Ji, former president of the Chogin Kinki Credit Cooperative, gets in a car in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 14 on his way to questioning by investigators. He is suspected of withholding information during a financial inspection of the Kobe-based failed credit union serving pro-Pyongyang Korean residents of Japan.

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Police begin questioning ex-Chogin Tokyo execs

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the media swarm outside Chogin Tokyo credit union Nov. 8, 2001 as police began questioning former senior executives of the failed credit union on suspicion they withheld data from Tokyo metropolitan government investigators in 1998.

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Chogin Kinki raided for allegedly evading financial inspection

KOBE, Japan - Police investigators enter the head office of Chogin Kinki Credit Cooperative in Kobe's Nagata Ward on Sept. 26 to search for evidence in connection with the company's alleged evasion of an inspection by a financial authority last year. Chogin Kinki is the largest pro-Pyongyang credit union in Japan.

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FRC declares N. Korea-linked credit union insolvent

OSAKA, Japan - An Chon Chi (R), director general of Chogin Kinki Credit Cooperative, the largest pro-Pyongyang credit union in Japan, speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Dec. 29 after his union was declared insolvent by the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC).

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N. Korea-linked credit union declared insolvent

TOKYO, Japan - Hakuo Yanagisawa, chairman of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission, declares Chogin Kinki Shinyo Kumiai, the largest pro-Pyongyang credit union in Japan, insolvent at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 29.

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N. Korea-linked credit union asks FRC for public funds

TOKYO, Japan - The picture shows an aerial view of the headquarters of Chogin Kinki Shinyo Kumiai, the nation's largest pro-Pyongyang credit union, in Kobe, western Japan. Chogin Kinki, the third largest credit union in Japan with some 640 billion yen in deposits, asked the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) on Dec. 29 to replenish its depleted liquidity holdings under the financial-system revival law.

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