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Prosecutors investigate Yoon Woo-jin’s subpoena for ‘bribery and sponsorship allegations’

Yun Woo-jin, former head of Yongsan Tax Office

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jong-chan Han = Former Yongsan Tax Office Chief Yoon Woo-jin is leaving after being investigated by the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office on the afternoon of the 26th. 2021.11.26 saba@yna.co.kr

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Joo-Hwan Kim = Former Yongsan Tax Office Chief Yoon Woo-jin, who is accused of accepting bribes from meat importers, has been summoned to the prosecution again.

According to the legal community on the 26th, the 13th Criminal Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office (Prosecutor Lim Dae-hyeok) summoned and investigated former Chief Yoon, who is accused of bribery, as a suspect.

Prosecutors are looking into allegations that former Chief Yoon received golf and other entertainment from a meat importer such as Mr. Kim from 2010 to 2011, and the prosecution dismissed a search and seizure warrant when the police began an investigation.

Yoon is the older brother of Yoon Dae-jin, the head of the planning department at the Legal Research and Training Institute, who is close to the former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol.

Separately from this case, the Central Prosecutor’s Office of Anti-Corruption and Strong Investigation Division 1 (Deputy Prosecutor Jeong Yong-hwan) is investigating the allegation that former Chief Yoon received money from ‘sponsors’, including businessman A, and introduced them to lawyers and tax authorities.

Mr. A filed a complaint with the prosecution at the end of last year, and from around 2018 to 2019, he was called to meet with former and current prosecutors, high-ranking officials of the National Tax Service and the police, and paid for meals and golf several times. claimed.

Choi, who is a close confidant of former Chief Yoon, and who is suspected of taking 645 million won from Mr.

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