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Prosecutors have launched a full-fledged investigation into the suspicion of ‘Chun Doo-hwan’s slush fund’, which was revealed by former President Chun Doo-hwan’s grandson Jeon Woo-won.
According to the legal community on the 22nd, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office assigned the case the day before to the criminal proceeds collection department (Chief Prosecutor Lim Se-jin). The Criminal Proceeds Recovery Department is a department that tracks and recovers the profits accumulated through crime.
On the 19th, the People’s Livelihood Countermeasure Committee (Seominwi) submitted a complaint to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office asking for an investigation into the alleged corruption of the Chun Doo-hwan family. The Commonwealth Commission accused Chun Doo-hwan’s wife Lee Soon-ja (84), sons Jae-guk, Jae-yong and Jae-man, and daughter Hyo-seon on charges of violating the Concealment of Criminal Proceeds Control Act, evading compulsory execution, and obstructing business.
In the complaint, the People’s Committee said, “The substance of the ‘black money’ used in the process of inheriting the business of the three sons of former President Chun Doo-hwan to his grandchildren is a slush fund created from corporate and national tax money during the former president’s term.” must be done,” he said.
The suspicion of ‘Chun Doo-hwan’s slush fund’ was raised when Jeon Woo-won posted a video and articles about the Chun Doo-hwan family on his SNS from the 13th. Jeon Woo-won said of Jeon Jae-man, his uncle and the third son of Chun Doo-hwan, “He runs a winery in Napa Valley, USA. Winery is a business field that cannot be entered unless someone has astronomical money. It smells like black money. It goes,” he claimed.
A video of Lee Soon-ja swinging a golf club at her home screen golf course in Yeonhui-dong was also released. In an interview with some media outlets, he claimed to have heard that slush funds were hidden in a safe at his home in Yeonhui-dong. Jeon Woo-won, who revealed the suspicion, was taken to the hospital after taking drugs during his SNS broadcast.
Chun Doo-hwan was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1997 for violating the Act on Rebellion and Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes (bribery), and was ordered to collect 220.5 billion won. The money collected by the prosecution is 128.322 billion won, which is 58.2% of the total fine, and 92.278 billion won is unpaid. However, it seems that all outstanding fines cannot be recovered. According to the Criminal Procedure Act, unpaid fines are not inherited when the party dies.
However, among Chun Doo-hwan’s unpaid fines, it is expected that about 5.5 billion won of the forest auction price in Osan, Gyeonggi-do will be recovered. In 2013, the prosecution seized five forest plots in Osan, Gyeonggi Province, which were entrusted to Kyobo Asset Trust by the Chun Doo-hwan family. Accordingly, in July 2018, Kyobo Asset Trust filed a lawsuit to the court to confirm the invalidity of the seizure, saying that the seizure was unfair.
Afterwards, when the Supreme Court decided that the prosecution’s seizure was justified in July 2018, the prosecution was given priority to pay about 2.052 billion won for the distribution of the second lot. For the remaining 3 parcels, Kyobo Asset Trust has filed a ‘suit to cancel the disposition of distribution of the public sale’, and a judgment is scheduled for the 7th of next month.
An official from the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office said in a phone call with this magazine, “We are looking into whether there is any connection with the crime in relation to the Chun Doo-hwan family exposure.”
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- Jang Hanji
- hanzy0209@ajunews.com
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