Min Young-jin, chief executive of Korea’s largest tobacco producer KT&G, offered to resign a week after prosecutors began probing slush fund allegations.
Min, whose term officially ends in seven months, attended the board meeting Wednesday to announce his intention to resign, KT&G said.
The board will convene a committee to sort out candidates.
Last week, Min was investigated at the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office over embezzlement and breach of trust charges.
Prosecutors suspect that Min created a slush fund of an undisclosed amount through insider deals with subsidiaries beginning in 2010, the year of his inauguration.
