In addition, Lee Jae-myung, the representative of the Democratic Party, will appear at the prosecution as a suspect on the morning of the 28th in relation to the allegations of development in Wirye and Daejang-dong.
It's been 1 year and 4 months since the suspicion of daejangdong in September 2021 has been raised.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office is summoning and investigating CEO Lee today on charges of breach of trust in business and violation of the Anti-Corruption Act.
Representative Lee arrives at the outskirts of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul at around 10:20 am, greets supporters, and is scheduled to move to the prosecutor's office.
Representative Lee, as the final decision-maker in the Wirye and Daejang-dong development projects while serving as Seongnam Mayor, is accused of leaking internal secrets of Seongnam City and Seongnam Urban Development Corporation to private contractors so that they can make huge profits.
Prosecutors believe that through this preferential treatment, private business owners made undue profits, including 788.6 billion won from the Daejang-dong project and 21.1 billion won from the Wirye New Town project.
On the other hand, the prosecution judged that Seongnam City lost a large amount of money because it did not receive additional profits other than the fixed profit of 182.2 billion won from the Daejang-dong project.
Prosecutors suspect that Lee made the final decision on the business structure that drives profits in the private sector, and in return received various election support or financing from private businessmen through aides such as Jeong Jin-sang, then policy secretary.
Representative Lee has been pointed out as the 'body' of the case since the suspicion of Daejang-dong arose in 2021, but criticism was raised that the investigation of Lee or his closest aides was insufficient because it was during the presidential election phase and the Democratic Party was in power.
Since then, after the launch of the Yoon Seok-yeol government, the prosecution command and investigation team were completely replaced, and the investigation of the Wirye and Daejang-dong allegations faced a new phase.
As the Wirye and Daejang-dong projects have been in progress for about 10 years, the prosecution prepared more than 100 A4 sheets of questionnaires, and it is known that Lee also prepared a written statement of 30 pages.
Unless Representative Lee agrees to a late-night investigation, the investigation is expected to be concluded before midnight.
It seems that this representative investigation will be taken by a vice-chief-level prosecutor, and Lee's side is expected to be attended by lawyer Park Gyun-taek, who also participated in the first appearance on the 10th.