Choi Mo, the mother-in-law of former Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol, who was indicted for illegally receiving billions of won worth of medical supplies while running an illegal nursing hospital, attends the first trial held in Uijeongbu District Court on morning of last July 2nd. Uijeongbu | Photo Collaboration Foundation
Police did not send President Yoon Seok-yeol’s mother-in-law Choi accused by a civic group of submitting a false balance sheet to the court in a lawsuit to return the down payment on a land in Dochon-dong, Seongnam -do, Gyeonggi-do.
The Anti-Corruption and Public Crime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 21st that the case in which the civic group Citizens’ Action for Correcting Judicial Justice (Sasehaeng) accused Choi of attempted fraud and other charges has been dismissed without any charges on the 16.
Sasehaeng disclosed the reason for the accusation that Mr. Choi filed a lawsuit against the seller for the return of the down payment after he failed to pay the balance due on the purchase of land in Dochon-dong and tried to deceive him by filing a false certificate of balance to the court.
Mr. Choi submitted a fake balance certificate worth 10 billion won to the Seoul Central District Court, which heard the lawsuit for the repayment of the down payment, but the court rejected Mr. Choi’s claim in August 2013. The ruling was finalized in April of the following year.
Police also admitted that Mr. Choi submitted a fake balance sheet certificate to the court at the time of the lawsuit. However, he was found “not guilty,” stating that the balance certificate presented by Mr. Choi had no effect on the sentence.
This case is separate from the one in which Mr. Choi was indicted on charges of falsifying documents and private events, and was sentenced in December last year.
As for Choi’s alleged possession of a borrowed name for an apartment in Songpa-gu, which surfaced in 2005, the police concluded the investigation without the right to prosecution, stating that the statute of limitations (five years) had expired in the case that Sasehaeng was accused of violating the Real Estate Real Name Act.
