Amway, the No. 2 direct seller in Korea, may be in a good place to gain on the compeition as Korea’s top direct sales company hits trouble.
South Korean prosecutors expanded an investigation into the country’s largest multi-level marketing company, examining allegations that it bribed politicians and government officials, including the family of a presidential secretary, to help curtail a probe into its fraudulent sales activities.
The Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office said Tuesday it will increase the number of prosecutors investigating the case to seven from the current four and try to uncover all suspicions surrounding the JU Group.
"We will shift the focus of our investigation to the lobbying suspicions from now on," a prosecution official told reporters on condition of anonymity.
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