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In summary, Hyosung has spent 40 billion won in attorney fees for the past six years in relation to the total number of people involved. Let's take a look at what kind of contract lawyers have signed up to 40 billion won. . According to the internal data collected by the interview team, Hyosung signed a contract with lawyers from the high-ranking prosecutors in every major problem of the prosecution investigation.

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October 11, 2013. The prosecution, which was investigating corruption cases such as accounting and tax evasion of Hyosung, searched the house of the company and family members at the same time.

Since then, Hyosung has entered into a legal contract with lawyers from the high-ranking prosecutors office.

Most of the contracting parties came from the inspectors who gave their names to the special investigation bins.

We will conclude a short-term contract with A lawyer to pay KRW 200 million for two months consultation.

At the end of the year, when the recall of President Cho Hyun-jun is imminent,

We also sign contracts with lawyer B, who is from the prosecutor's office, to pay 1.7 billion won and 1 billion won, and 2.7 billion won, respectively, to conclude two legal consultations on an interval of 17 days.

Though the amount is astronomical, the method of payment was also unprecedented.

Although the terms of the two contracts are two years each, it is reported in the internal accounting records that the first contract was made 1 billion won, the next day 700 million won, and the second contract was made 1 billion won.

[Min-kyung Han / Lawmaker: I usually pay a monthly consulting fee. I do not pay for two years. I do not pay for two years. It is doubtful that this type of consulting contract was a criminal case, and that the company paid a large amount of consulting contract in advance for a short period of time in order to pay for the company's expenses.

In addition, a contract is signed with lawyers from the inspection office to represent the legal firms, which will pay hundreds of millions of won in consultation fees.

After the seizure, all 10 contracts were signed within three months.

[Director Lim Ji-bong / Joint-Venture Judicial Supervision Center: First of all, what is urgent is ... Is not it a question of whether or not to be arrested? Somehow, there are many cases where we want to avoid redemption. In such cases, the so-called public prosecutors will appear.]

At the time, the prosecution did not request a warrant for Cho Hyun-joon, and Honorary President Cho Suk-rae dismissed the warrant once in court, eventually the rich man was handed over to trial.

A similar pattern of legal contracts is repeated in the prosecution investigation of Cho, Hyun-Joon, President of Korea in 2017,

Prosecutors all over the country are back in business, with a wealth of special investigative experience.

First, in March 2017, Hyosung enters into an agreement with a lawyer from the inspection office for a 700 million won legal consultation contract and a 100 million won case contract.

The duration of the legal consultation contract is two years, and the period of the case contract is until the end of the investigation. However, after the two contracts are concluded, the entire contract amount of 800 million won will be transferred.

In September, he made a 700 million won advisory agreement with a lawyer who belongs to another supervisor and 700 million won in November, and a lawyer from a special manager in November.

As the investigation speeded up in the second half of the year, prosecutors' attorneys signed a heaping consultation with a lawyer or eight law firms.

According to Hyosung's contract, most of the inspectors received more than KRW 300 million in consulting fees, and customized lawyers who can influence the investigation have received more than common sense.

[Min-kyung Han / Lawmaker: I think it's almost a matter of arguing with the criminal case. You can do a civil case. Why at such a time like this. It's a shortcut. Shortcut.]

Hyosung explained that it was an inevitable choice to defend the company from all-round investigations including the company as a defendant.

[Hyosung official: The company's contract is focused on corporate defense.)

However, in the legal system, it is believed that the attorneys in charge of the investigations have been dealt with by the attorneys in charge of the investigation, and that the defense activities were conducted in such a way that the influence of the judges was influenced by the investigators and the command line.

(Image coverage: Ji, Jang, Choon, Kang Dongchul, Image editing: Park Jin-hoon, VJ: Kim Junho)