The key to proving whether or not to pay in advance in Gyeonggi-do
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Former Ssangbangwool Group Chairman Kim Seong-tae arrives at Incheon International Airport on the 17th of last month. random news
Former chairman Kim Seong-tae, who was arrested on suspicion of corrupting the Ssangbangwool group, is expected to be prosecuted on the 3rd at the earliest. As former Chairman Kim’s statement that the Ssangbangwool Group was involved in the North Korean Gyeonggi-do project between 2018 and 2019 comes to light, the prosecution is paying attention to the connection between this case and the leader of the Lee Jae-myung’s Democratic Party.
According to the legal community on the 2nd, the 6th Criminal Division Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office (Chief Prosecutor Kim Young-nam) plans to arrest and indict former Chairman Kim on the 3rd and 4th. The deadline for the arrest of former Chairman Kim is until the 5th of this month. Given that the 5th is Sunday, the prosecution plans to prosecute former chairman Kim on the 3rd at the earliest and the 4th at the latest.
The arrest warrant for former chairman Kim listed charges of embezzlement, breach of trust, violation of the Capital Markets Act (fraudulent transaction), violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, violation of the Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Act , bribery, and inducement. of destroying evidence. Most of the charges relate to former chairman Kim’s suspicion of creating an illegal slush fund, violating the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act and the Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Act, according to the ‘suspicion of payments to North Korea’ by the Ssangbangbangul Group. .
Prosecutors are looking into the suspicion of sending money to North Korea by the Ssangbangwool group. Initially, former chairman Kim claimed that the $8 million he sent to the North was ‘money given for the right to work with North Korea’. However, during the investigation, former chairman Kim changed his statement to the effect that he had paid for North Korea’s smart farm aid project instead of Gyeonggi-do, and asked North Korea to send dollars for necessary expenses for a visit Lee with the North. Korea.
According to the prosecutor’s investigation, former chairman Kim received from Dandong, China on December 29, 2018, Kim Seong-hye, who was then the head of the United Front Strategy Office of the United Front Department of North Korea, and others, saying, “Gyeonggi-do promised a smart farm improvement project and there is no support.” He is said to have received a request for “assistance.” Former Chairman Kim presented 5 million dollars to the North in January and April 2019. The prosecution understands that the nature of this money is in the name of the cost of the smart farm support project.
On July 25-26, 2019, in Manila, Philippines, it was also reported that the second North Korean event hosted by Gyeonggi-do, the International Convention for Peace and Prosperity in Asia and the Pacific, discussed payments to North Korea. Former Chairman Kim and former Vice Governor Lee met with Ho-Nam Ri, a member of the National Security Agency, North Korea’s South Korean intelligence agency, and asked for cooperation in Governor Lee’s visit to North Korea, talking about the presidential election. It was investigated that former chairman Kim presented 3 million dollars in the name of ‘expenses for Governor Lee’s visit to North Korea’ in November and December of the same year.
It was also confirmed that Gyeonggi-do sent an official letter to Kim Yong-cheol, the chairman of the Chosun Asia-Pacific Peace Committee in North Korea, requesting cooperation for the visit of the governor of Gyeonggi to North Korea in November 2019. The official document passed by former vice governor Lee on November 27 was stamped with the official seal of CEO Lee, who was then the governor of Gyeonggi-do.
It is also known that prosecutors secured statements from former chairman Kim saying, “I heard thanks from former Democratic Research Institute vice president Kim Yong right after the transfer of 5 million dollars” and “After Lee lost the presidential election, before the deputy governor Lee called him and gave him assurance.
Based on former chairman Kim’s amended statement and the facts confirmed so far, the prosecution is investigating whether Ssangbangwool paid the money on behalf of Gyeonggi-do and did not provide or promise benefits in return. It is expected that an investigation into the former lieutenant governor Lee, who has already been arrested and indicted, will be conducted in order to ascertain the nature of the money and the nature of the money. Depending on the results of the investigation, there is a possibility that the prosecution will bring Lee directly into the investigation.
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