Choi Hung-Jib (pictured), the former Chief Executive Officer for domestic casino operator, Kangwon Land Incorporated, led the state-run casino firm from 2011 to 2014 but stood down after being indicted on charges that he had unfairly hired employees at the request of local politicians.
The guilty verdict from a district court in the city of Chuncheon, South Korea, saw Choi immediately remanded into custody where he is now set to join two other former Kangwon Land Incorporated executives in serving time over the affair.
Only 518 of the around 5,200 people that had applied for jobs at the Kangwon Land Casino in 2012 and 2013 had been successful. It was later purportedly alleged that Choi and a pair of associates had illegally doctored the assessments of some of these candidates in favor those with ties to high-profile politicians.
