The anti-corruption and public crime investigation team of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 20th that it has decided to dismiss the allegations related to former CEO Lee. This is because the 7-year statute of limitations for mediation under the Act on Aggravated Punishment for Specific Crimes has already passed and cannot be prosecuted.
Former CEO Lee has been accused of receiving various types of entertainment until around 2015, including two sexual payments in 2013. Garosero Research Institute, which raised such suspicions, filed a complaint once morest Lee in December of last year.
IKAIST CEO Kim Seong-jin, who was accused of providing sexual favors to Lee, also claimed that Lee received money and entertainment, including sexual favors, and arranged a meeting with former President Park Geun-hye in return.
The police also acquitted Kim of the claim that he gave Lee a Chuseok gift worth 200,000 won in September 2015. Holiday gifts are made for the purpose of ‘maintaining relationships’, so it is difficult to apply the ‘comprehensive crime’ that is viewed as a crime with previous entertainment.
However, investigations into the allegations that former Chairman Lee tried to dispel the allegation of sexual harassment through former party leader Kim Cheol-geun, and the prosecution of former Chairman Lee innocence by Kang Shin-up, the lawyer for Kim, are expected to continue.
Former People’s Power Representative Lee Jun-seok leaves the court following completing an interrogation on the suspension of the effect of the People’s Power Party constitution held at the Seoul Southern District Court in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul on the 14th. [사진=국회사진기자단]
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