Following reports that the office of the Seoul Taekwondo Association (STA) was raided by police last week, two vice-chiefs at the nations volleyball governing body, whose identities have been withheld, are now under suspicion of siphoning off the government funds through the distortion of the organisations' financial accounts.

A team of prosecutors and investigators at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office obtained computer hard drives and confidential documents - such as the accounting books - from the office in southern Seoul to corroborate the charges, according to reports from South Korean news agency Yonhap.

The investigation is just one of thousands taking place across the nation following a request by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in January to investigate 10 national and regional sports federations for alleged corruption.

The requests came after the Ministry claimed to have uncovered 337 different corrupt practices at 493 sports agencies, including accounting fraud, nepotistic hiring of executives and embezzlement following a nationwide inspection of nearly 3,000 sports bodies at the national, provincial and municipal levels.

This is not the first scandal to hit the KVA over the last two years, with the organisation being rocked by a match-fixing scandal back in 2012 which led to lifetime bans for several of its professional players.

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