On the 26th, People’s Power continued a massive offensive against the prosecution and passports in connection with the resignation of the prosecutor who was investigating the allegation of preferential treatment for Seongnam FC of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung on the 26th.
Lee Yang-soo, senior spokesperson for the People’s Power Central Election Countermeasures Headquarters, said in a comment on the same day, “(The Seongnam FC allegation) is ‘the second Daejang-dong gate’ and “The second Daejang-dong gate and Park Eun-jung, the chief of the Seongnam Branch, are interfering with the investigation. Another reason to introduce it has been added.”
Candidate Lee, who served as the mayor of Seongnam from 2015 to 2017, is suspected of giving preferential treatment to companies in the name of receiving Seongnam FC sponsorships and advertising expenses from six companies while serving as the owner of Seongnam FC, a soccer club.
According to the legal community on the 25th, Deputy Prosecutor Park Ha-young of the Seongnam Branch, who was investigating the allegation, had resigned after clashing with his superiors, including Park Eun-jung, director of the Seongnam Branch, who demanded the end of the investigation.
Chief Spokesperson Lee said, “Director Park Mi-ae was a prosecutor at the time of former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae and was a representative ‘pro-government prosecutor’ who led the disciplinary action against Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. Wasn’t it meant to prevent the investigation of various power-type gates that took place during that time?” he criticized.
He said, “Is this the only outcome of the ‘Democratic party-style prosecution reform’ that the Moon Jae-in administration praised for itself?” “The prosecutor who has the Democratic Party’s genes and actively conceals the corruption in the passport is always successful, and the choice of a just prosecutor who does not yield to power. Losing is only demotion or resignation.”
Kim Jin-tae, chairman of the People’s Power Lee Jae-myung Corruption National Investigation Special Committee, said, “(The suspicion) is enough to use the indictment as it is,” and “(the prosecution) should stop the Seongnam FC case (investigation) and hand it over to the special prosecutor” claimed that
Chairman Kim said, “It’s not that we’re prosecuting this case right away, and we hear that the head of the branch blocked even asking the police for a supplementary investigation. They threw away both the law and their conscience to flatter the government,” he pointed out.
“The Supreme Prosecutor’s Office must immediately investigate and investigate the circumstances of the abuse of authority by the Chief Prosecutor.” We can no longer entrust the case to the Seongnam branch.”
World and Northeast Asia Peace Forum Chairman Jang Seong-min said in a Facebook post on the same day, “The suspicion of Seongnam FC favoritism is the ‘second Daejang-dong gate’ to Lee. There is great suspicion that The prosecution must re-investigate this matter and make it clear.”
Meanwhile, Representative Kim Eun-hye of People’s Strength criticized Seongnam City for refusing to submit data related to the allegations.
Rep. Kim’s side said, “The councilor’s office requested data from Seongnam City on December 29 last year, but Seongnam City sent a position that it could not disclose the data on January 17 of this year.” It can only be seen that Seongnam City is rejecting the data,” he pointed out.
(Seoul = News 1)
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