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The People's Strength Ethics Committee discussed until late last night (22nd) whether or not to take disciplinary action against CEO Jun-seok Lee's allegations of sexual harassment and destruction of evidence.

First, the disciplinary process will begin with Kim Cheol-geun, the leader of the political affairs office, who is involved in the alleged destruction of evidence, and Lee decided to take disciplinary action on the 7th of the following month after hearing his vocation.



Correspondent Lee Hyun-young.



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The People's Power Ethics Committee, which started discussion at 7 pm yesterday, ended just before midnight.



Lee Yang-hee, chairman of the ethics committee, announced that he would initiate disciplinary proceedings against Kim Cheol-geun, head of the political affairs office, who was the leader of the party, in relation to the alleged sexual abuse and destruction of evidence by Lee Jun-seok.



Director Kim is a key figure in suspicions known to have written a memorandum of investment attraction worth 700 million won in January with Jang Mo, who claims to have provided sexual favors to CEO Lee.



[Lee Yang-hee / People's Power Central Ethics Committee Chairman: The suspicion has not been resolved yet.

Since you came today to cooperate, we decided that we should have an in-depth discussion...

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The Ethics Committee announced that it would decide whether to take disciplinary action against CEO Lee Jun-seok by re-opening the Ethics Committee on the 7th of next month.



Earlier, the Ethics Committee summoned Director Kim at 8:30 yesterday evening as a witness and listened to his vocation for over an hour.



It is known that Director Kim said that he met the person who raised the allegation of sexual assault to confirm the facts and that there was no direction from the representative.



After watching the results of the Ethics Committee investigation in the National Assembly representative's office, Chairman Lee protested, arguing why he delayed his vocation by two weeks.



[Lee Jun-seok / Representative of the People's Power: All members must know that the lengthy procedure does not help the party's chaos at all, but I wonder what is the reason for the lengthy...

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However, the Ethics Committee did not disclose a separate position regarding the initiation of disciplinary procedures against Kim, his close aide.