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The People's Strength Ethics Committee discussed until late last night (22nd) whether or not to punish Lee Jun-seok for accusations of sexual harassment and destruction of evidence by CEO Lee Jun-seok, and gave an answer on what to do right now.

First, we will start with Kim Cheol-geun, head of the political affairs office, and decide whether or not to take disciplinary action after hearing the call on the 7th of next month.



Reporter Lee Hyun-young reports.



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



Lee Yang-hee, chairman of the ethics committee, announced that he would initiate disciplinary procedures against Kim Cheol-geun, leader of the party's political affairs office, in relation to the alleged sexual abuse and destruction of evidence by Chairman Lee Jun-seok, saying that he had violated the maintenance of dignity as a party member.



Director Kim is a key figure in suspicions known to have written a memorandum to attract investment 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 pm yesterday evening as a witness and listened to his vocation for over an hour.



Director Kim is known to have claimed 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 Party 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, he did not make a separate statement on the ethics committee's initiation of disciplinary proceedings against his close aide, Director Kim.