Prosecutor's office indicts former president at home for support group for former comfort women in South Korea September 14, 17:42
The South Korean prosecutor's office gave a subsidy of about 33 million yen to the former president of the support group and a member of the ruling party's parliament, who was accused of unclear how to use the donation to the former comfort woman on the 14th. I was charged at home for violating the subsidy management law that I had deceived.
In May, a 91-year-old former comfort woman criticized a former comfort women support group in South Korea for operational problems, and several civil society groups have accused the use of donations as unclear. I did.
For this reason, as a result of conducting an investigation such as searching the office by the Western Seoul Prosecutor's Office, on the 14th, Yun Mi-Hyan (Yoon Mee-hwan), a member of the ruling party "Democratic Party of Korea" who was the former chairman of the support group, was indicted. Announced that he was charged at home.
According to this, Senator Yun violated the Subsidy Management Law, which deceived a subsidy of about 370 million won (about 33 million yen in Japanese yen) from the national and local governments due to false applications, and a bank in his own name. He has been accused of misappropriation for business purposes by diverting more than 100 million won (about 9 million yen in Japanese yen) such as donations collected from his account.
While Mr. Yun was asked about the situation twice voluntarily, he completely denied a series of allegations that he had not personally diverted it at a press conference.
For many years, Yun has been at the forefront of activities seeking apology and compensation for former comfort women, including weekly protests against the Japanese government around the Japanese embassy in Seoul, but was charged at home. , It seems that a strict eye will be focused on the way of support.