A senior executive of the suspended Mirae Mutual Savings Bank has been found hanged in an apparent suicide that would be the fourth such case in nine months, police said Friday.
The 50-year-old banker only identified by her surname Kim was found hanging by her scarf at a motel room in Seoul Friday afternoon, they said.
She checked in the motel around 11:20 p.m. on Thursday and was set to be summoned by prosecutors over financial irregularities surrounding the bank, which was suspended on May 6 along with three other savings banks due to financial weakness.
Mirae's chief executive Kim Chan-kyong was arrested on embezzlement charges after the suspension and Kim was considered a close aide to the arrested banker, police said.
Police are investigating the cause of her death, and it was not immediately clear whether she left a suicide note.
Since last September, executives of three other suspended savings banks have committed suicide amid a widening probe into corruption at their banks. (Yonhap)