檢, subpoena to former vice president Kim Yong… Investigation of remittances to North Korea to Lee Jae-myeong’s aide

It has been confirmed that the prosecution, which is investigating the ‘suspicion of remittance to North Korea’ by the Ssangbangwool group, sent a subpoena to Kim Yong, former vice president of the Institute for Democracy. Former Vice-Chief Kim is said to have refused to respond to the prosecution’s verbal request for attendance, saying, “I have nothing to say in particular.” The prosecution currently believes that Ssangbangbangul’s payment of remittances to North Korea amounts to third-party bribery, and is investigating an additional charge of Lee Hwa-young, former deputy governor of Gyeonggi Province.

According to the legal community on the 24th, the 6th detective division of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office (chief prosecutor Kim Young-nam) sent a summons to former vice-chief Kim the day before. The prosecution recently requested former vice-president Kim’s lawyer to appear over the phone as a reference and be investigated, but when former vice-president Kim’s side refused, they officially notified the summons.

It is known that the prosecution is trying to find out whether former Vice Chairman Kim was aware of the Ssangbangwool Group’s remittance of $8 million to North Korea and Gyeonggi-do’s payment of North Korean smart farm support project expenses.

This is because Kim Seong-tae, former chairman of Ssangbangul Group, stated at the prosecution that “when I sent dollars to North Korea for remittance and smart farm payment in 2019, I reported this while talking to former Vice President Kim over the phone, and I also met him twice.” .

Regarding the suspicion of remittance to North Korea, former Chairman Kim paid a total of $8 million at the request of former Vice Governor Lee Hwa-young in 2019, including $5 million for the North Korean smart farm support project that Gyeonggi-do should have paid, and $3 million for the Gyeonggi-do governor’s visit to North Korea requested by the North at the time. that it was sent to North Korea. The former deputy governor denies this.

Former Vice President Kim, an aide to Lee, was a spokesperson for the Gyeonggi Provincial Office at the time of the Ssangbangwool remittance to North Korea.

He is accused of receiving 847 million won in the name of presidential election funds from Nam-wook four times in collusion with Yoo Dong-gyu, former head of the planning headquarters of Seongnam Urban Development Corporation, and Min-yong Jeong, before and after the preliminary contest for the Democratic Party presidential candidate (violation of the Political Fund Act). ) was indicted in November of last year. Later, as the bail application submitted to the court was accepted, he was released on the 4th of this month, after six months of arrest.

On this day, when the news of the prosecution’s summons notification of former vice-president Kim came out, former vice-president Kim’s lawyer issued a statement and said, “Former vice-president Kim has already revealed that there was no exchange other than having a meal with former chairman Kim Seong-tae when he was a spokesman for Gyeonggi-do.” said He added, “Even if former Vice-President Kim appeared as a reference, he had nothing to make a special statement, and he conveyed to the prosecution that he was not in a situation to attend because another trial was currently in progress.”

Suwon = Reporter Oh Sang-do [email protected]

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