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 morning of the 21st. 2023.9.21/News 1
It was reported on the 21st that the prosecution had identified circumstances in which Kim Yong (former vice president of the Democratic Institute for Democracy), a close associate of Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, was informed of and approved in advance the perjury that would be committed in his trial.
The prosecution’s investigation revealed that Mr. Lee, a former director of the Gyeonggi-do Market Promotion Agency, who appeared as a witness in Mr. Kim’s trial in May of last year, testified a false alibi denying Mr. Kim’s charges at the request of Mr. Park and Mr. Seo, former situation office heads of Lee’s presidential election campaign. Mr. Lee admitted perjury, and Mr. Park and Mr. Seo were arrested on the 15th on charges of instigation of perjury.
It is known that the prosecution detailed the circumstances in which Lee’s associates systematically participated in perjury in the warrant request for Mr. Park and Mr. Seo. The prosecution reported that immediately after Mr. Kim was arrested in October 2022, former Gyeonggi Arts Center President Lee Woo-jong, Democratic Party Deputy Spokesperson Seong Jun-hoo, Mr. Park, and Mr. Seo held a countermeasures meeting and later created the ‘Kim Yong Trial Response Task Force (TF)’ and began fabricating an alibi. there is.
The alibi manipulation is related to ‘May 3, 2021’, which was designated as the day Mr. Kim received 100 million won from Dong-gyu Yoo (former head of Seongnam Urban Development Corporation). It is said that officials from the ‘Kim Yong TF’ collected the schedules of Mr. Kim and those around him and confirmed that Lee, former head of the Gyeonggi Province Market Promotion Agency, and Shin, former head of the Gyeonggi Province Energy Center, met that day. Afterwards, Mr. Park and Mr. Seo asked Ms. Lee, “Please testify that she also met Mr. Kim that day,” but Ms. Lee reportedly said, “She has no memory of meeting Mr. Kim that day.” However, when Mr. Park and Mr. Seo repeatedly asked, she also perjured Lee, saying, “That day, she met with Mr. Kim and others and had a business meeting.”
In addition, the prosecution is said to have captured the circumstances in which the ‘perjury plan’ was reported to Mr. Kim, who was imprisoned in a detention center at the time, and that Mr. Kim himself gave directions for some of the contents. Accordingly, there is a possibility that the prosecution will expand the investigation into perjury.
Attorney Kim Ki-pyo, who defends Mr. Kim, said, “Witness Lee also said he met Mr. Kim on May 3, 2021, but gave a completely different statement to the prosecution,” adding, “I am confident that other facts can sufficiently prove that Mr. Kim did not receive money that day.” “There was no reason or need to perjure the evidence,” he said. Mr. Kim was found guilty in the first trial in November last year of receiving 600 million won in illegal political funds and 70 million won in bribes from Mr. Yoo, and was sentenced to five years in prison and detained by the court.
2024-01-21 18:52:23
#Kim #Yong #received #prior #report #alibi #perjury #plan #approved
