Lawyer Lee Jong-geun: Defense in Multi-level Fraud Cases | Legal Expertise | News Updates

2024-03-28 08:51:00

Lawyer Lee Jong-geun (29th class), the husband of former Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office chief prosecutor Park Eun-jung (28th class, Judicial Research and Training Institute), the first candidate for proportional representation of the Korea Reform Party, represented the company representative in the ‘Hustem Korea fraud case’ with multi-level damages of up to 1 trillion won. It was reported on the 28th that he received a total of 2.2 billion won in commission fees. This fee is said to be the highest ever in a multi-level fraud case.

Attorney Lee Jong-geun and Park Eun-jung, the first candidate for proportional representation for the Fatherland Innovation Party, are married./Law Office Stairs·News 1

The ‘Hustem Korea fraud case’ is about recruiting investors and stealing their investment money by buying and selling agricultural, livestock, and marine products in the shopping mall they created and promising to return the principal and high interest rates. The prosecution indicted the company and 10 people, including its CEO Mr. Lee, in January on charges that Hustem Korea received more than 1.19 trillion won in subscription fees from about 100,000 investors (violation of the door-to-door sales law). Prosecutors believe that Hustem Korea recruited investors using a multi-level similar organization disguised as a farming cooperative corporation. The police are further investigating Hustem Korea’s charges of fraud and similar receipt.

According to this paper’s coverage, lawyer Lee Jong-geun was appointed as a lawyer for the Hustem Korea corporation from late last year to early this year, as well as its CEO, Mr. Lee, the head of the company, Mr. Cho, and the recruiter, Mr. Cho. He appeared in person at Hustem Korea’s first trial court twice and gave his defense on the 28th of last month and the 26th of last month. However, on the 5th, lawyer Lee resigned from representing the two Chos.

The police are said to have confirmed that 2.2 billion won was passed on to this lawyer as legal fees while tracking Hustem Korea’s financial flow. It is said that the 2.2 billion won in fees that this lawyer received from Hustem Korea included 200 million won in value-added tax. Hustem Korea is said to have made a statement during the police investigation to the effect that ‘the 2.2 billion won was for legal fees paid to this lawyer.’ One legal expert said, “This means that the lawyer’s fees came from the victims’ blood money.”

In addition, this lawyer was appointed as the defense lawyer for the ‘Ado International fraud case’, which amounted to 400 billion won in multi-level damages. Ado International recruited investors using guaranteed principal and a high interest rate of ‘2.5% per day’ as bait, intercepted approximately 36 billion won, and received 446.7 billion won worth of quasi-receipts (raising money from a large number of people without permission from financial authorities). ) People involved have been indicted one after another on charges of committing crimes since October of last year. Attorney Lee is in charge of the defense of Son, CEO of Ado International affiliate, who was arrested and indicted on the 19th.

Attorney Jong-geun Lee / YouTube

In the legal world, there is criticism that “you can’t blame a lawyer for defending even a violent criminal such as a murderer, but shouldn’t this lawyer at least have avoided representing a defendant in a multi-level fraud case?” In a YouTube broadcast he appeared on last year when he opened his law practice, lawyer Lee said, “The stories of people who have suffered (multi-level) damage, such as housewives and the elderly, are so sad that my goal is to prevent and recover from the damage to these people and prevent such damage from occurring.” “It’s a road,” he said. On the afternoon of the 28th, this YouTube broadcast was made private.

It is known that he has specialized in illegal multi-level investigations since he was assigned to the 4th Criminal Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office when he was appointed as a prosecutor in 1999. He also investigated the Jo Hee-pal fraud case worth 4 trillion won and the Jayu Group fraud case worth 2 trillion won. With this experience, Attorney Lee received the ‘Black Belt’ certification as a first-class certified professional prosecutor in the field of multi-level and similar receiving cases while working as a prosecutor. One prosecutor said, “A prosecutor who was in charge of multi-level investigations took over the role of defending the perpetrator of a multi-level fraud case as soon as he retired.”

Attorney Lee left the prosecution in February of last year. While working as a prosecutor, lawyer Lee was appointed as a policy adviser to former Minister Park Sang-ki, the first Justice Minister of the Moon Jae-in administration. He was later promoted to Chief Prosecutor, and went on to become Chief of the Criminal Division at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office and Chief of the Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office, and was called a ‘pro-Moon Prosecutor’. This lawyer is known to have graduated from the NL movement at Seoul National University Law School. One legal expert said, “This lawyer is living the life of a lawyer that contradicts the words he uttered during his time as a prosecutor,” and added, “You should know that the huge amount of legal fees comes from the victims’ hard-earned money.” A lawyer who used to be a prosecutor said, “It seems necessary to look into whether Huestem Korea has been hiding criminal profits under the guise of attorney fees.”

Cho Kuk, leader of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party (right) and candidate Park Eun-jung. /News 1

Meanwhile, according to the details of the assets of candidates for the general election submitted to the National Election Commission by candidate Park Eun-jung, who joined the Fatherland Innovation Party this month, the assets of candidate Park, including herself (1 billion won) and her husband, lawyer Lee Jong-geun (3.9 billion won), total 4.981 billion won. It was. Looking at the details of the assets of public officials that Attorney Lee reported in May of that year after leaving the prosecution in February of last year, his couple’s assets were 875.26 million won. In just one year, assets increased by 4.1 billion won. One legal expert said, “The fee for the multi-level fraud case that this lawyer took on probably accounted for a significant portion of the increase.”

Candidate Park Eun-jung was called a representative ‘pro-Moon Jae-in and pro-Chu Mi-ae’ prosecutor during her time as a prosecutor. Candidate Park completed his dispatch to the Korea Institute of Criminology in February 2020 and was selected as Choo Mi-ae, an inspection officer at the Ministry of Justice at the time. While serving as an inspection officer, Candidate Park was suspected of being involved in the ‘scam inspection’ of Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol of the then Ministry of Justice Choo Mi-ae. Candidate Park was recently ‘dismissed’ by the Ministry of Justice due to this suspicion, and the Corruption Investigation Office is investigating the suspicion.

This lawyer did not respond to repeated calls. The only reply I received was an automatic reply message saying, ‘I’m in a meeting. I’ll call you later.’

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