Kim So-yeon “I was forced to finance illegal funds during the 6th and 13th elections”
– The civil lawsuit filed by Justice Minister Park Bum-gye against former Daejeon City Councilman Kim So-yeon is sparking a controversy over’conflict of powers’. In response to Candidate Park’s claim for damages worth 100 million won, saying, “Attorney Kim So-yeon damaged her reputation by spreading false information,” Attorney Kim filed a civil suit of 300 million won against Candidate Park and three broadcasters on the 2nd. Filed.
The reason that the lawsuit between Candidate Park and lawyer Kim took place is because of the transcripts submitted to the court in early 2019. The transcript was part of a recording of an interview with reporters from three broadcasting companies in Daejeon, when lawyer Kim raised allegations of illegal election funding for candidate Park in 2018.
Candidate Park Bum-gye, Minister of Justice, is approaching the office in preparation for a personnel hearing at the Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul. yunhap news
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Attorney Kim insists, “At the time, candidate Park obtained the recording and then extracted some of the contents that were favorable to him and submitted it to the court.” Through his Facebook, etc., he insists, “The current reporter is a party to suspicion without my permission, and it is a’conflict of powers’ in which the entire recording file was handed over to the person who filed a lawsuit against me.”
The clash between Park Candidate and Attorney Kim goes back to the 2018 June 13 local elections. At the time, lawyer Kim revealed that in September 2018, three months after the election of a Daejeon city councilor, “I was forced to finance illegal elections during local elections by Rep. Park Beom-gye.”
Attorney Kim insisted that “A former secretary to Park’s secretary and former Daejeon city councilman B, who is referred to as candidate Park’s aide, requested political funds worth 100 million won in exchange for nomination in April 2018.”
“Two of candidate Park’s aides are arrested for requesting illegal funds”
– After Kim’s revelation, the Daejeon City Election Commission commissioned the prosecution to investigate the case in October 2018. As a result of the prosecution’s investigation, it was revealed that Mr. A and B requested 50 million won from Mr. C, as well as from Mr. Kim, as well as a preliminary candidate for the Daejeon Seo-gu, C.
In November 2018, the prosecution indicted A and B for violating the Public Office Election Act. Afterwards, the two were sentenced to 1 year and 4 months in prison and 1 year and 6 months in prison, respectively.
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Former Daejeon city councilor Kim So-yeon. News 1
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Candidate Park officially apologized for the involvement of his aide in the allegations of illegal election funds revealed by lawyer Kim in November 2018. However, he denied any suspicions of his involvement, such as ‘aiding’.
Beom-gye Park sued for “defamation with false facts”
– In December 2018, the Democratic Party’s Daejeon City Party expelled from the party, saying, “Daejeon City Councilman Kim So-yeon declared false information to damage the party’s honor.” In the same month, Candidate Park filed a lawsuit for damages worth 100 million won, saying, “Attorney Kim spread false information and damaged his own reputation.”
Earlier, the controversy over the’conflict of rights’ arose during the trial of this civil suit. The legal representative of Candidate Park submitted some of the recordings of the conversation to the court in early 2019, saying, “Attorney Kim met reporters in 2018 and spread false facts.” The recording, which lasts about 30 minutes, was recorded on November 15 and 16, 2018, when lawyer Kim strongly criticized Congressman Park.
“Park Beom-gye submits a recorded file of the civil lawsuit process”
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![Former city councilor Kim So-yeon (left) and candidate Park Bum-gye (right) [연합뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202101/04/88911b6d-6d5f-4a56-814f-ec179182e6ab.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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Former city councilor Kim So-yeon (left) and candidate Park Bum-gye (right) [연합뉴스]
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Attorney Kim insists, “At the time, candidate Park got the whole recording file.” It is the position that some of the transcripts were extracted and submitted as evidence of the lawsuit against Kim. In response, attorney Kim said, “It is possible that candidate Park recorded it secretly,” and filed a complaint with the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office in April 2019 for violating the Communications Secret Protection Act. In July 2019, the prosecution dismissed candidate Park without prosecution, saying, “This case does not violate the Communications Secret Protection Act.”
The JoongAng Ilbo made a phone call to Candidate Park to get an explanation of Kim’s allegations, but no contact could be reached.
Daejeon = Reporter Kim Bang-hyun [email protected]
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