2023-09-21 04:06:52
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Suspicions of illegal election funding and bribery… “Yoo Dong-gyu’s fraud” pleads not guilty
Prosecutor: “I hope Yoo Dong-gyu is recognized as a person who showed courage, not a traitor.”
Prosecutors asked the court to sentence Kim Yong, former vice president of the Korea Democratic Institute for Democracy, to 12 years in prison, who was indicted on charges of receiving illegal election funds and bribes.
This is the first case in which a trial was concluded and a sentence was imposed among the trials of those involved in the ‘Daejang-dong preferential development suspicion’ raised during the last presidential election. Sentencing is set for November 30.
Kim Yong, former vice president of the Korea Institute for Democracy, is attending a follow-up trial on illegal political funds and bribery held at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-dong, Seoul on the 21st.
At the decision trial held on the 21st at the Criminal Agreement Division 23 of the Seoul Central District Court (Presiding Judge Cho Byeong-gu), the prosecution said, “Please sentence Mr. Kim to 12 years in prison and a fine of 380 million won, and order him to collect 790 million won.”
They requested 1 year and 6 months in prison and a 140 million won fine for former Seongnam Urban Development Corporation Planning Director Yoo Dong-gyu, an accomplice on charges of violating the Political Fund Act, and 1 year in prison and 7 million won in fines for lawyer Jeong Min-yong.
We requested that Mr. Namwook, the fund donor, be sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of 100 million won.
The prosecution said, “Mr. Kim’s crime of requesting campaign funds from a private businessman with whom he had been in collusion for a long time, receiving 600 million won in cash and using it for the party’s primary is shocking even to the prosecutors.”
He continued, “I don’t know if I had a sense of guilt (thinking) that I might cover up the entire process if I got elected, regardless of the means and methods,” and “I strongly believed that he was using self-hypnotizing words to say that even if he ran the election with black money, he might just get elected.” criticized.
In particular, the prosecution said that during the trial, Mr. Kim’s side incited perjury and manipulated evidence to obtain favorable testimony, and said, “I hope the court will consider revoking Mr. Kim’s bail ex officio.”
The prosecution said of Mr. Yoo, “He is both the main accomplice in the crime and the reporter,” adding, “We hope that Mr. Yoo will be recognized as a person who showed courage, not as a ‘traitor.'”
In his final remarks, Mr. Kim protested, saying, “I have never requested or received funds from Mr. Yoo for the presidential election,” and added, “I am devastated, indignant, and unfair that the prosecution ignored my efforts to find the truth under the assumption that I am a criminal.”
In particular, Mr. Kim said, “There are circumstances in which Mr. Yoo’s statement was actively ‘pieced together’ by meeting with the prosecution several times around the time it changed.” He also claimed, “I cannot erase the suspicion that the prosecution had an impure purpose in making a large-scale media play over the fact that there was confusion regarding the date I remember.”
Mr. Kim’s lawyer pleaded not guilty, saying, “This case was a fraud by Yoo Dong-gyu with Kim Yong, Jeong Jin-sang, and Lee Jae-myeong on his back,” and “Mr. Yoo dragged Mr. Kim and Mr. Jeong in when the blame for the Daejeon-dong incident focused on him.”
Mr. Yoo said, “My sins cannot be washed away even in death, and all I can do now is to be honest regarding everything and reflect on it. Whenever my former sworn brothers make ridiculous excuses, I look back at how narrow-minded it was to be loyal to them.” “It will happen,” he said.
Mr. Kim, who is a close associate of Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is accused of conspiring with Mr. Yoo and others to receive 847 million won as presidential election funds on four occasions between April and August of last year, before and following the party’s presidential primary.
While serving as a standing member of the City Construction Committee of Seongnam City Council from February 2013 to April 2014, he is also suspected of receiving a total of 190 million won on four occasions from Mr. Yoo in return for providing facilities related to the establishment of the construction company and the Daejang-dong development project.
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