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Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs announced that as a result of an audit of former Liberation Chairman Kim Won-woong, who resigned due to embezzlement allegations, it was found that 800 million won of corruption was found.

Allegations of inflating business costs by hundreds of millions of won and personal use of corporate cards were included, but the Ministry of Veterans Affairs filed a complaint against former Chairman Kim to the prosecution.



Reporter Bae Jun-woo.



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Two years ago, the Liberation Society promoted a cartoon publishing project to honor independence activists.



The book was published by selecting 100 people, including Baek Beom Kim Gu and Dr. Lee Bong-chang.



It also included Jeon Wol-seon, the mother of former chairman Kim Won-woong, known as an independence activist.



The Liberation Society invested a total of 1.06 billion won in this project, and the Ministry of Veterans Affairs and Veterans Affairs revealed that about 500 million won was inflated during the contract with the printing company.

[Park Min-sik / Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs: ( project



cost) in total, it was 1.06 billion won, but I did 1.06 billion won instead of 500 million won]



A circumstance was also found that inflated to 100 million won even after being advised that it was sufficient.



The total amount of allegations of corruption is 850 million won, but the amount of profit that Kim directly earned was not confirmed in the audit.



The Ministry of Veterans Affairs also saw a problem with Kim's corporate card use.



About 22 million won was spent on bathing, wig maintenance, and private business facility operation expenses, but it was not related to the operation of the Liberation Day.



The Ministry of Veterans Affairs and Veterans Affairs plans to file a complaint with the prosecution against former Chairman Kim and four former Liberation Party employees on charges of negligence, etc.



Former Chairman Kim said, "I can't believe the results of the audit for maliciously harassing me."



(Video coverage: Han Il-sang, video editing: Hwang Ji-young)