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controversy over who is the real owner of Das, an auto parts company, began 13 years ago in 2007.

At that time, suspicions arose ahead of the presidential election, and the prosecutors and special prosecutors also investigated, but they were all charged with nothing.



[Lee Myung-bak/Former president, after the presidential candidate's joint speech and year-end meeting (December 18, 2017): (Dozens are asking who they are.) I don't think it's a thing to ask me.]



Then, in 2017, the investigation began again. As new evidences emerged one by one, former President Lee Myung-bak was finally convicted in the Supreme Court today (29th).



Reporter Kang Cheong-wan will organize the events that have happened so far.



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[Lee Myung-bak/Former President, Presidential Candidate Joint Speech (August 6, 2007): Everyone, do you know that these are all lies?]



BBK and Dogok-dong land and dozens, the first time the suspicion of the second-name property of former President Lee Myung-bak was raised This is the time of the 2007 Grand National Party presidential nomination.



Candidate Park Geun-hye, who was a rival at the time, raised suspicions strongly, but the answers were consistent.



[Lee Myung-bak/Former President, Joint Speech for Presidential Candidate (August 17, 2007): How is the land in Dogok-dong?

How about BBK?

It's a red lie.

Everyone!] The



prosecution went on an investigation, and after he was elected president, he even received a special prosecutor's investigation, but the conclusions are all chargeless.



Exactly ten years later, the results of the investigation were reversed.



After the inauguration of the Moon Jae-in regime, the prosecution, who began an investigation by accusations of BBK victims and civic groups, narrowed the investigation by seizure and search in all directions, and Lee protested that it was political retaliation.



[Lee Myung-bak/Former President (January 17, 2018): It is considered as a political work to destroy conservatives and to do so, as well as political retaliation for the death of President Roh Moo-hyun.]



However, in the past special prosecution, aides who denied the suspicion made different statements. He turned his back on his face, and Lee was arrested in March 2018 after two months of investigation.



Since then, it has been handed over to trial on 16 charges including embezzlement and bribery.



[Han Dong-hoon/ Chief Prosecutor (at the time, 3rd Deputy Chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office): Former President Lee (Myung-bak) confirmed that he was the beneficial owner of Das Co., Ltd.]



Former President Lee was sentenced to medium sentence in the first and second trials, but bail between them. He was also accused of using the law to trick him while repeating the restraint and arrest of executions.



However, with the Supreme Court ruling again, the social controversy and suspicions surrounding the former president ended in 13 years.



(Video Editing: Kim Jong-woo)  



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