Choi Mo, the mother-in-law of former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who was indicted for illegally receiving medical care benefits worth billions of won while operating an illegal nursing hospital, attends the first trial held at the Uijeongbu District Court on the morning of July 2 last year. Uijeongbu | Photo Collaboration Foundation
The police did not send President Yoon Seok-yeol, mother-in-law Choi, who was accused by a civic group for submitting a false balance certificate to the court in a lawsuit for the return of down payment related to land in Dochon-dong, Seongnam-do, Gyeonggi-do.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Anti-Corruption and Public Crime Investigation Unit announced on the 21st that the case in which the civic group Citizens’ Action for Establishing Judicial Justice (Sasehaeng) accused Choi of attempted fraud and other charges was closed with no charges on the 16th.
Sasehaeng revealed the reason for the accusation that Mr. Choi filed a lawsuit once morest the seller for the return of the down payment following he failed to pay the balance due to the purchase of land in Dochon-dong and tried to deceive him by submitting a false balance certificate to the court.
Mr. Choi submitted a false 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 dismissed Mr. Choi’s claim in August 2013. The ruling was finalized in April of the following year.
The police also admitted that Mr. Choi submitted a false balance certificate to the court at the time of the lawsuit. However, it was judged as ‘not guilty’, saying that the balance certificate submitted by Mr. Choi had no effect on the judgment.
This case is separate from the one in which Mr. Choi was indicted on charges of forgery of private documents and events, and was convicted last December.
Regarding Choi’s alleged possession of a borrowed name for an apartment in Songpa-gu, which surfaced in 2005, the police concluded the investigation with no right to prosecute, saying that the statute of limitations (five years) had passed on the case where Sase-haeng was accused of violating the Real Estate Real Name Act.