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공공재정 부정청구 금지 및 부정이익 환수 등에 관한 법률 시행령 (Enforcement Decree of the Public Funds Recovery Act), 대통령령 제30309호, 2019. 12. 31. 제정, 2020. 1. 1. 시행
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What the document holds
First Enforcement Decree of the Public Funds Recovery Act (Presidential Decree 30309, in force 1 Jan 2020), full text (30 articles, 2 annexes, reason statement). Programme content: scope of public funds, recovery of fraudulent gains with interest and sanction surcharges (out of scope), name publication, reporter protection (arts. 13-17), awards up to KRW 200 million (art. 18), rewards of 30% of the recovered amount capped at KRW 3 billion (art. 19), reduction limits of 30% per ground and 50% in total (art. 20), no reward for audit/investigation officials on their own duties (art. 22), up to 50% withheld until recovery starts (art. 25). Already in the data: 30% (min and max), cap KRW 3 billion, launch event. Added: award cap, reduction limits, withholding share. Out of scope throughout: the commission's organisation and complaint handling, protection procedures and their deadlines (60-day protection decisions, 7-day objections, etc.), penalty schedules (fines for negligence 과태료, non-compliance charges 이행강제금, surcharges on fraudsters 제재부가금), employment limits and citizen audit requests. Intermediate bands of the reward schedules are not separate rows (only top and bottom rates, as earlier passes did); the 1,000-won rounding rule is not recorded.
What it supports
9 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.
Programmes (1)
Reward rules (7)
- Maximum awardfraudulent claims for public funds (Public Funds Recovery Act)KRW 3,000,000,0001 Jan 2020 – 28 Sep 2026 · Korea Law Information Center 2019South Korea · ACRC rewards for corruption, public-interest and public-funds fraud reports
- Maximum awardmonetary award (포상금) for reports of fraudulent claims for public funds (Public Funds Recovery Act), reports made before 19 Dec 2023KRW 200,000,0001 Jan 2020 – 18 Dec 2023 · Korea Law Information Center 2019South Korea · ACRC rewards for corruption, public-interest and public-funds fraud reports
- Maximum award reductionpublic-funds rewards (Public Funds Recovery Act): maximum cut for each single reduction ground (accuracy, prior media coverage, reporter's own illegal acts, contribution)30%1 Jan 2020 – 18 Dec 2023 · Korea Law Information Center 2019South Korea · ACRC rewards for corruption, public-interest and public-funds fraud reports
- Maximum award reductionpublic-funds rewards (Public Funds Recovery Act): maximum total cut when two or more reduction grounds apply50%1 Jan 2020 – 18 Dec 2023 · Korea Law Information Center 2019South Korea · ACRC rewards for corruption, public-interest and public-funds fraud reports
- Maximum award sharefraudulent claims for public funds (Public Funds Recovery Act)30%1 Jan 2020 – 26 Sep 2024 · Korea Law Information Center 2019South Korea · ACRC rewards for corruption, public-interest and public-funds fraud reports
- Minimum award sharefraudulent claims for public funds (Public Funds Recovery Act)30%1 Jan 2020 – 26 Sep 2024 · Korea Law Information Center 2019South Korea · ACRC rewards for corruption, public-interest and public-funds fraud reports
- Share of award that may be withheld until recovery startspublic-funds rewards (Public Funds Recovery Act) decided on a legally settled recovery: share of the decided reward that may be withheld until revenue recovery starts50%1 Jan 2020 – 18 Dec 2023 · Korea Law Information Center 2019South Korea · ACRC rewards for corruption, public-interest and public-funds fraud reports
About the document
What it covers First Public Funds Recovery Act decree: art. 19, reward = 30% of the recovered amount, cap KRW 3 billion.
Notes Official consolidated text as of this version, retrieved as XML from the law.go.kr open API (lawService, MST=212863); the same version is viewable at https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=212863. XML kept as the raw copy.
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