ChainCatcher reported that South Korean lawmaker Lee Kang-il alleged during an Oct. 19 parliamentary audit of the Financial Supervisory Service that a Kim & Chang adviser with FSS ties encouraged financial companies to sign MOUs with Vitoz, which Lee linked to the KOK Coin case. In the same reported exchange, FSS Governor Lee Chan-jin said he had received a brief report regarding Vitoz.

What Lee Kang-il Alleged About Vitoz and KOK Coin

According to ChainCatcher, Lee said at the Oct. 19 FSS audit that a Kim & Chang adviser with ties to the regulator encouraged financial firms to sign MOUs with Vitoz. He also linked Vitoz to the KOK Coin multilevel-fraud case and cited losses of 2.5 trillion won affecting 570,000 victims domestically and internationally.

ChainCatcher also said Lee cited multiple unnamed sources who claimed that companies seeking to join Hana Bank’s stablecoin consortium were directed by Hana Bank’s president to consult a specific law-firm adviser. Lee’s allegation was that this adviser then encouraged those companies to pursue MOUs with Vitoz.

Those points matter because they describe more than a simple fraud-link claim. The allegation is that an adviser-mediated referral chain may have helped Vitoz gain credibility or business access through established financial channels. In the supplied evidence, however, the asserted Vitoz-KOK connection and the loss and victim figures remain Lee’s reported claims rather than confirmed case totals.

What the Reported FSS Response Actually Establishes

In the supplied evidence, the official status is still narrow. The reported response from FSS Governor Lee Chan-jin establishes only that he had received a brief report regarding Vitoz. It does not establish a formal inspection, investigation, referral to prosecutors, sanction, or criminal finding.

That distinction is important because parliamentary allegations and regulator awareness are not the same as a documented enforcement case. The current record provided here does not identify the contents of the reported brief, the unit that prepared it, or any next procedural step by the FSS.

The same caution applies to the alleged Hana Bank stablecoin-consortium pathway. ChainCatcher’s account describes a claimed referral mechanism based partly on unnamed sources, not a documented consortium rule or a confirmed bank requirement. So the live issue is whether the allegation triggers a more formal response, not whether wrongdoing has already been established.