Lee Hwa-young, the former vice-governor of Gyeonggi Province, who is currently incarcerated on suspicion of Ssangbangwool remittances to North Korea, claimed through a prison note that she made false statements unfavorable to Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myeong due to the prosecution’s conciliation and pressure.
In a 21-page handwritten note released to the media today by former Deputy Governor Lee’s lawyer, former Deputy Governor Lee said, “If prosecutor Park does not admit that former Ssangbangwool Chairman Kim Seong-tae paid for CEO Lee Jae-myung’s visit to North Korea, he will be indicted as the main culprit.” “I have no choice but to do it,” he said.
At the same time, he wrote, “I asked if I had a good conversation with Kim Seong-tae’s lawyers. I want to protect the deputy governor, but I don’t have much time. I need to make my position clear quickly.”
Accordingly, former Deputy Governor Lee made a false statement to the effect that he had reported Ssangbangwool’s remittances to North Korea in advance to CEO Lee Jae-myung.
Instead, it was recorded that “since we believed that the truth needed to be revealed later, we deliberately checked the date of CEO Lee Jae-myung’s public schedule in July 2019, and then identified the date as that day.”
Former Deputy Governor Lee also said that in June, Prosecutor Park said, “The part where Representative Lee Jae-myung said ‘I understood’ after receiving the report must be included,” and “If the smart farm part is also readily acknowledged, the Deputy Governor’s role in this case becomes really small.” ″He claimed that he had been cajoled repeatedly.
The prison note contained circumstances in which the prosecution arranged a meeting with former Ssangbangwool Chairman Kim Seong-tae during the appeasement process, and former Chairman Kim was also mobilized for this.
Former Deputy Governor Lee said, “Former Chairman Kim Seong-tae said in an interview that the most important thing right now is to cooperate with the prosecution as they say and get out quickly.”
In relation to this, former Deputy Governor Lee submitted a petition to the National Assembly on the 26th to impeach the investigating prosecutor belonging to the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office.
The Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office issued a statement and refuted the case, saying, “So far, the investigation has been conducted in strict compliance with legal procedures,” and “there has been no evidence of appeasement or pressure.”
The Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office strongly criticized the statement, saying, “The statement regarding remittances to North Korea was made with the participation of a lawyer from the Democratic Party’s Legal Committee.” He also said, “Former Deputy Governor Lee failed to comply with the prosecution’s request to appear several times, so it is incomprehensible how appeasement and pressure were achieved.”
2023-12-28 09:14:50
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