In the first interrogation (substantial warrant review) of a suspect before the arrest of the leader of the main opposition party, held for the first time in constitutional history, the prosecution and Lee Jae-myeong, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, engaged in a fierce battle for about 9 hours and 16 minutes. This is the second record in history, following former Blue House National Security Office Director Seo Hoon, who underwent a warrant review for about 10 hours and 5 minutes due to suspicions of concealing the attack on a public official in Seohae.
The prosecution emphasized concerns about Representative Lee’s destruction of evidence by presenting a ‘hidden card’ that had not been disclosed until now, and Representative Lee’s side completely denied the charges and emphasized the need for an investigation without detention. Representative Lee, who attended the warrant review while receiving hospital treatment after the end of his fast, was also given the right to speak several times, denying the charges and actively expressing his opinion.
The warrant review, which was conducted by Chang-hoon Yoo, chief judge in charge of warrants at the Seoul Central District Court, involved a two-hour and 30-minute battle between the prosecution and Representative Lee’s side regarding the suspicion of preferential treatment for the Baekhyeon-dong development project and the suspicion of Ssangbangwool Group’s remittances to North Korea.
The prosecution disclosed in court the circumstances surrounding CEO Lee’s destruction of evidence, which were not included in the arrest warrant. When the prosecution deployed 10 current prosecutors and emphasized the need for a detention investigation with a presentation (PPT) of about 500 pages, Representative Lee’s six lawyers, including former high prosecutor Park Kyun-taek and former chief judge Kim Jong-geun and Lee Seung-yeop, responded with a 150-page PPT . I stood.
The investigation team of the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office is said to have disclosed the circumstances in which Representative Lee persuaded former Gyeonggi Province Vice Governor for Peace Lee Hwa-young, a key figure in the suspicion of money transfers to North Korea, through former Gyeonggi Province Peace and Cooperation Director Shin (who is in prison). During a previous메이저사이트 prosecution investigation, CEO Lee reportedly stated that he did not know about former Director Shin, who was in charge of North Korea business operations, saying, “I don’t know because he is a low-level employee.” However, the prosecution is said to have disclosed in court on this day a text message in which CEO Lee received contact information for former Deputy Governor Lee’s wife Baek from former Director Shin the day after Ahn Busu, head of the Asia-Pacific Peace Exchange Association (in prison), was arrested in November of last year. . The prosecution suspects that, at the direction of Representative Lee, Park Chan-dae, a top member of the Democratic Party, contacted Mr. Baek and others, and as a result, former Deputy Governor Lee released a ‘prison letter’ reversing the prosecution’s statement that “I reported the North Korea project to Representative Lee.” I’m doing it.
The prosecution is also said to have identified circumstances in which Gyeonggi Province official documents were illegally leaked by Yoon, head of the political affairs coordination department in the party’s representative office, at the direction of Representative Lee while the investigation into remittances to North Korea was in progress. The prosecution reportedly revealed this during the warrant review and claimed, “Considering the blatant attempts to obstruct justice that are still ongoing, there will be intensive cajoling and pressure during the future investigation and trial.”
On the other hand, Representative Lee’s side is said to have countered with the statement, “Legal testimony from many of the people involved has been secured through related trials already in progress, and just because the documents were leaked does not mean the evidence has disappeared.” In particular, he is said to have made the argument that “since the prosecution conducted an extensive investigation over a year and a half, there is no more evidence to destroy, and there is no need to worry about destroying evidence because there are many parts that are not criminal under the law.” He also continued his position that the prosecution obtained the former vice-governor’s false statements through cajoling and pressure, saying, “The North Korea project was former Vice-Governor Lee’s decision.”
● Representative Lee Jae-myeong actively expresses his opinion in courtIt was reported that the tension between the prosecution and the defense team was at its peak when Representative Lee was fighting over the need for detention, including the charge of inciting perjury and destruction of evidence in the so-called ‘impersonation of a prosecutor’ trial. On this day, the prosecution released a transcript of CEO Lee requesting false testimony from Mr. Kim, a close associate of Kim In-seop, former CEO of Korea Housing Technology, a ‘Baekhyeon-dong broker’, saying, “If you are going to testify about this case, I think you have no choice but to go that way.” It was passed down.
It is said that Representative Lee also spoke actively against the prosecution and emphasized the need for an investigation without detention. During the warrant review, Representative Lee was given the right to speak at times and completely denied the charges, and in his final statement, he complained of injustice, saying, “I didn’t make a single penny of profit, but it seems like I have become a public figure to the world after the development of Daejeon-dong.”
● “There are more circumstances surrounding the destruction of evidence”
vs. “The prosecution is trying to appease and pressure Lee Hwa-young”