The JTBC report that Kwon Seong-dong, the acting representative of the People’s Power Party and the cousin of the floor leader, Mr. Kwon, has signed a number of private contracts with Gangneung City, raising suspicions of preferential treatment, is controversial.
When asked regarding his views on the allegations, floor leader Kwon only laughed and said ‘hahahaha’, but did not give a separate answer. However, the People’s Power Media Bureau took a stand on the followingnoon of the 21st and said that it would file a 100 million won damages suit once morest the JTBC reporter, saying it was unfounded and malicious.
On the evening of the 20th, JTBC hosted the newsroom ‘[단독] Kwon Seong-dong’s cousin’s brother company, even following inspection, in 76 veterinary contracts with Gangneung City, a lighting company run by Mr. Despite the disciplinary action, he reported that he had signed 76 additional contracts since then. “Isn’t it a privilege to take on so many projects once more? This is the core of the suspicion.”
JTBC reported that the lighting equipment installed here was damaged by a typhoon in September 2020, and the city of Gangneung cost 150 million won to install it. did. When the city council and civic groups raised suspicions of preferential treatment, the government conducted a special inspection and determined that Gangneung City and Company A violated the ‘direct production obligation’ applied to the contract for the acquisition of agricultural and industrial complexes, the broadcaster said. At that time, the inspection report of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety stated, “The public officials did not properly check the confirmation of occupancy in the agricultural and industrial complex and the confirmation of direct production in advance, resulting in preferential treatment to unqualified companies. ” said JTBC.
JTBC reported that it was confirmed that the city of Gangneung disciplined seven people, including officials in charge, and sent only requests for improvement to company A.
JTBC broadcast that even though the Ministry of Public Administration and Security took disciplinary action in October 2020, the company was found to have received 76 orders from Gangneung City through private contracts following that. According to the office of Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Doo-kwan, Company A was awarded contracts worth 8 billion won in 415 cases from 2015 to June this year. The broadcast broadcast that Rep. Kim Doo-kwan insisted, “It is necessary to reveal whether there was any unfair exercise of power,” saying, “There is a suspicion of preferential treatment not only in the business where the Ministry of Public Administration and Security was audited, but also in the entire business process.”
In response, Kwon said, “The project was done legally,” and argued that the allegations of preferential treatment were not true.
When this broadcast was aired, Democratic Party lawmaker Park Yong-jin wrote on his Facebook on the morning of the 21st, “It feels like Gangneung has become a city of Yoon Hak-gwan.” Rep. Park said, “President Seok-Yeol Yoon’s last New Year’s speech as the Prosecutor General was ‘Fair prosecution, public prosecution’. Prosecutors can still investigate economic and corruption crimes, so why don’t they investigate acting Kwon? In particular, Rep. Park said, “Acting deputy director Kwon Seong-dong should also be referred to the disciplinary review committee.
On the followingnoon of the 21st, floor leader Kwon Seong-dong entered the floor leader’s office following finishing the speech of the representative of the People’s Power negotiating group at the plenary session of the National Assembly, and met with reporters as he went out of the main building of the National Assembly for an external schedule and was asked a question regarding it. When the floor leader Kwon was regarding to get into the car, he just laughed and left following saying “Hahahaha” to a reporter’s question regarding ‘how do you view the reports of his cousin’s suspicion of driving work?’
After that, an attempt was made to make a phone call with the floor leader Kwon, but the connection was not made.
After that, the People’s Power Media Bureau announced that it would claim 100 million won in damages, stating that the JTBC report was groundless through a text message and SNS messenger group at 1:15 pm on the same day.
The People’s Power Media Bureau said, “Yesterday, JTBC’s report of Kwon Seong-dong’s allegation of preferential treatment for his cousin Kwon Seong-dong is completely groundless.” We have decided to take strict legal action.”
The People’s Power Media Bureau said, “First, we will claim 100 million won in civil damages from the JTBC reporter, and we plan to take the same action for dictated articles.” .
