Prosecutors indicted Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung on charges of publishing false information under the Public Official Election Act, said that Lee had known the late Kim Moon-ki, the first development director of the Seongnam Urban Development Corporation since 2009, and had been receiving assistants from Kim frequently, including face-to-face reports.
As a result, it is expected that there will be a battle for authenticity in court in the future. Through several broadcast appearances at the end of last year, CEO Lee has claimed that he did not know Kim at all when he was the mayor of Seongnam, and found out regarding it during the trial following becoming governor of Gyeonggi Province.
The prosecution included these additional cases and judgments in the indictment once morest Lee. Representative Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party are of the opinion that it is not appropriate to answer the evidence presented by the prosecution as a trial is scheduled. However, Rep. Park Beom-gye, who serves as the chairman of the party’s political oppression countermeasures committee, did not have ‘meaningful recognition’ of Kim during his time as mayor of Seongnam, and whether or not this was a ‘fact’ corresponds to the ‘fact’ that is a component of the subject of false information disclosure. I objected that I didn’t.
According to the indictment filed by the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office (for submission to the National Assembly) submitted by the Ministry of Justice by Kim Do-eup, chairman of the Legislative and Judiciary Committee (Rep. . In the indictment, the prosecution said, “I got to know the late Director Kim Moon-ki while working on remodeling system improvement activities with Dong-gyu Yoo around June 2009. Former Director Kim Moon-ki and Seongnam Urban Development Corporation Planning Division Director Yoo Dong-gyu gave presentations and discussions on the topic, and on December 1st, former General Manager Yoo participated in the ‘National Assembly Policy Debate for the Improvement of the Apartment Remodeling System’ sponsored by the Korea Remodeling Association, where Mr. Moon-ki Kim is the secretary. , along with the late Director Kim,” he wrote. Prosecutors said, “CEO Lee went on an overseas business trip to Australia and New Zealand for 9 nights and 11 days with the late Director Kim and former general manager Yoo from January 6 to 16, 2015, when he was the mayor of Seongnam, and had schedules other than the official schedule, such as golf.” altitude was suggested.
Prosecutors presented four cases in which Lee said he did not know Kim during his time as mayor of Seongnam. The media interview was held on △December 22nd of last year on SBS ‘Youngjin Joo’s News Briefing’ △December 24th on CBS Radio’s ‘Kim Hyunjung’s News Show’ △December 27th on KBS TV ‘Midnight Talk The Live’ △December 29th Channel A ‘Lee Jae-myung’s proposal – Conversation with a young man’, etc.
CEO Lee appeared on this broadcast and said that he did not know Kim Moon-gi during his time as mayor of Seongnam, did not meet or receive reports several times, received no business assistant, and never played golf with him on overseas business trips. However, the prosecution judged that ‘even following a business trip to Australia in 2015, I received reports from the late Director Kim Moon-ki and the former Director Dong-gyu Yoo, frequently received face-to-face reports from the late Director Kim, and received an assistant to the late Director Kim on all tasks related to the Daejang-dong project.
Regarding the reason that CEO Lee said he did not know Kim, the prosecution said, “If the close relationship between the former general manager Yoo Dong-gyu, Ko Yu-gi, and the late Kim Moon-ki, who played a leading role in the Daejang-dong project, and CEO Lee is confirmed, then the suspicion of corruption related to the Daejang-dong development project will be finalized. There was a fear that a critical public opinion that Lee was responsible for the president was formed and had a negative effect on the presidential election, so we announced false facts to prevent the spread of criticism by blocking the connection with them,” he wrote in the indictment.
Prosecutors also said, “In relation to the remarks made by CEO Lee during the Gyeonggi State Audit on October 20 last year, ‘The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport threatened to change the use of Baekhyeon-dong’, the prosecution said, “CEO Lee, as well as the Seongnam city officials in charge of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, I have never been threatened or under pressure to take issue with abandonment.” He said, “CEO Lee first reviewed the change of the 4-stage use area on his own, set it as an internal policy, and then raised the level of 4 from the previous use area. We have changed the area of use.” Prosecutors stated that they “published false information for the purpose of winning the presidential election.”
Accordingly, the Democratic Party of Korea did not provide detailed objections or positions on the specific grounds and judgments of the prosecution. Ahn Ho-young, senior spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Korea, said in a reply to an SNS messenger sent to Media Today on the evening of the 19th, “I do not think it is appropriate to give an answer because a trial is scheduled for this matter.” . Representative Lee Jae-myung’s office also responded to an SNS messenger that evening, saying, “I’ve already commented several times, and nothing has changed from my previous position.”
However, it legally refuted the prosecution’s logic. Park Beom-gye, chairman of the Democratic Party’s Yoon Seok-yeol regime’s Political Repression Countermeasures Countermeasures Committee, said in a telephone conversation with the media today on the evening of the day, regarding the recognition of the late Director Kim Moon-ki, “CEO Lee has a sense of what kind of person Kim is and what he does as a low-level employee, that is, the legal meaning. He countered, “Because it is the realm of the inner mind, it is difficult to judge whether it is false regarding ‘knowing or not knowing’.” Chairman Park also said, “The judgment of ‘know or don’t know’ is not ‘fact’, which is a component of false information such as ‘property’ and ‘experience’.”
In response to the prosecution’s explanation that he did not know Kim and others in order to avoid the theory of responsibility for Daejang-dong and reduce the negative impact on the presidential election, Chairman Park said, “At the time, he was already under attack as the main culprit in Daejang-dong and criminally charged.” According to the election law, I am not in a situation to make such a statement to win the election.” In response to the prosecution’s claim that ‘Lee has known the late Director Kim since 2009,’ Chairman Park said, “The trial has to be continued for a long time, but we cannot answer in advance all the details that the prosecution has enumerated.” No,” he replied.
In response to Baek Hyun-dong’s threatening remarks, Chairman Park explained, “In the official letter sent by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, there was a phrase ‘change of use is possible’.
Ahn Ho-young, senior spokesperson for the Democratic Party, said at a briefing on the 6th, “CEO Jae-myung Lee’s memory of Director Kim was following the election law litigation began following he was elected governor of Gyeonggi-do. After being introduced to Director Kim, I spoke on the phone several times.” He explained that it is difficult for the elected mayor to recognize and remember the head of the working team of the affiliated institution, he explained.