China News Agency, Seoul, June 28 (Liu Xu and Liu Jingni) South Korean prosecutors said on the 28th local time that considering the health condition of former President Lee Myung-bak, it will approve the application for suspension of his sentence and allow him to suspend his sentence for 3 months.
As a result, Lee Myung-bak, who is currently detained in Anyang Prison in Gyeonggi-do, was temporarily released after one year and seven months, and was released from prison that night.
Lee Myung-bak was President of South Korea from 2008 to 2013.
In 2018, Lee Myung-bak became the fourth former president of South Korea to be prosecuted and arrested for corruption after Chun Doo-hwan, Roh Tae-woo and Park Geun-hye.
The current President Yin Xiyue also participated in the relevant investigation.
In October 2020, the Supreme Court of South Korea sentenced former President Lee Myung-bak to 17 years in prison, fined 13 billion won (approximately RMB 67.5987 million), and recovered 5.78 billion won (approximately RMB) of criminal proceeds on charges of corruption and bribery. 30.056 million yuan).
During his imprisonment, Li Mingbo applied for the suspension of his sentence twice in December 2020 and at the beginning of this month, citing concerns about the new crown epidemic and health reasons.
According to South Korea's "Criminal Procedure Law", a prisoner may apply for any one of seven circumstances, including serious deterioration of health during his sentence, over 70 years of age, over 6 months of pregnancy, and unsupervised immediate family members who are elderly or young. suspended sentence.
As Lee Myung-bak was granted a reprieve from his sentence, whether he could be granted amnesty has also attracted much attention.
According to South Korea's YTN TV station, Lee Myung-bak had 577 interviews with lawyers within one year and seven months of his imprisonment, which is an average of once every two days.
In this regard, South Korean Congressman Kim Rundek commented that Lee Myung-bak's prison life is "very different" from other prisoners.
The "Han National Daily" even issued an article saying that although considering the public's negative public opinion on the amnesty of Lee Myung-bak, the Yin Xiyue government will be cautious about the amnesty, but it does not rule out making relevant decisions on this year's Liberation Day (August 15) to "Achieving National Unity and Economic Revitalization".
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