Choi Mo, the mother-in-law of former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who was charged with illegally receiving medical care benefits worth billions of money earned while operating an illegal nursing hospital, is attending the first trial and held at the Uijeongbu District Court on the morning of July 2 last year. Uijeongbu | Photographic Co-operation Institute
The police did not send President Yoon Seok-yeol, Choi’s mother-in-law, who was accused by a civic group of submitting a false balance certificate to court in a lawsuit for the return of a down payment related to land in Dochon-dong , Seongnam-do, Gyeonggi-do.
The Anti-Corruption and Public Crimes Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 21st that the case in which the civic group Citizen Action for the Correction of Judicial Justice (Sasehaeng) accused Choi of attempted fraud and other charges had been closed without any charges against the 16th
Sasehaeng revealed the reason for the accusation that Mr. Choi filed a lawsuit against the seller for the return of the down payment after he failed to pay the balance due to the purchase of land in Dochon-dong and tried to defraud him by submitting a fake balance certificate to the court.
Mr. Choi submitted a fake balance certificate worth 10 billion won to the Seoul Central District Court, which heard the lawsuit for the return of the down payment, but the court rejected Mr. Choi’s claim in August 2013. The ruling was finalized in April the following year.
The police also admitted that Mr Choi had submitted a false balance certificate to the court at the time of the lawsuit. However, he was found ‘not guilty’, saying that the balance certificate submitted by Mr Choi had no effect on the verdict.
This case is separate to the one where Mr Choi was charged on charges of falsifying documents and private events, and was found guilty in December last year.
Regarding Choi’s alleged possession of a borrowed name for an apartment in Songpa-gu, which came to light in 2005, the police ended the investigation without any right to prosecute, saying that the statute of limitations ( five years) transferred the case where Sase- a layer was accused of breaching the Real Estate Names Act.
