The forgotten case is gaining public attention again, as the voice of calls for re-examination of the former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook, who served two years in prison, has been released and has expired, has been called for reexamination.

The recent controversial suspicion of prosecution's coercive investigation has risen to the surface as some of the media reveals the memorandum of Han Man-ho, the former head of the case, who is the key figure of the case.

This memorandum contains the reason why Mr. Han stated that he had bribed a former prime minister during the prosecution's investigation and then turned over to court.

Mr. Han wrote that it was due to the fear of further prosecution and the prosecution's promise to help recover the business.

In addition, the leadership of the Democratic Party officially urged the re-examination of the case today (20th).
Kim Tae-nyeon, the deputy representative of the Supreme Council, cited the contents of Mr. Han's prison memorandum, claiming that the former prime minister was "a prosecutor's coercion and a victim of a judiciary farm."

"We hope that the Justice Department and prosecutors will honor the departments and institutions, and the court will honor the Ministry of Justice and immediately start to reveal the truth on their own."

Former Prime Minister Han was sentenced to two years in jail in the Supreme Court in 2015 on charges of receiving 900 million won from Mr. Han for the election of the U.S. presidential candidate in 2007.

At the end of 2009, prosecutors who began investigating the former prime minister on separate charges of bribery began a new investigation, raising suspicion of illegal political funding against a former prime minister a day before the first trial of bribery.

It was Mr. Han's statement that underpinned the investigation.

In 2008, Han, who was imprisoned for fraud after Hanshin Kun-young went bankrupt, said in a prosecution investigation at the time that he had handed over 900 million won to a former prime minister.

However, he overturned the statement that no money was handed out as a witness to the two trials of a former prime minister.

One prime minister was acquitted in the first trial, but in the second trial, he was sentenced to death with the weight of Mr. Han's prosecution.

Evidence was also acknowledged that a former Prime Minister's brother used a 100 million won check issued by Mr. Han as a charter fund.

The Supreme Court made the same judgment as the second trial.

In the Supreme Court alliance, 13 judges regarded all 300 million won as guilty of the 900 million won, but for the remaining 600 million won, 8 were guilty and 5 were not guilty.

The prosecution accused Mr. Han of perjury, saying he had made a false statement in a former prime minister's trial.

Mr. Han was sentenced to three years in prison at the first trial and two years in prison at the second trial, after which the sentence was finalized in the Supreme Court and served.

Democratic Supreme Commissioner Park Joo-min said today at the Supreme Council's ruling that a former prime minister's case was mentioned in a document released at the time of the so-called 'judicial farming' investigation, that the allegations of the trial should be revealed.

"In order to introduce the Court of Appeal, we had to persuade the ruling party (Saenuri Party) and the Blue House at the time, but the act of becoming a key (key) was a former prime minister's case," he said.

He added, "I wonder if you can be 100% sure that Han's memorandum is under strict judicial judgment," he added. "The question surrounding Han's memorandum must be cleared."

However, a prosecution official who participated in the investigation said, "The document called the memorandum was submitted as evidence in the course of a former prime minister's trial and was subjected to strict judicial judgment." The Supreme Court condemned this document and other evidence and convicted it. "

He also said, "At that time, the judges and lawyers reviewed all the notes (memorandums)." The contents of the (memorandums) are not new and there are no doubts related to it. "

The official stated, "Han, while imprisoned in the detention center, added the titles, such as a memoir, an attorney's interview note, a reference note, and a memo note, to the ordinary note, and then rewritten the prosecution's statement and made a plan to testify in court. "I wrote a number of false facts to exploit the above notes in court," he said.

"In the light of interview transcripts, Mr. Han's court testimony, and the Supreme Court ruling, it is clear that the memorandum of the fact that he was humiliated by the prosecutor's investigation and forced to memorize the false testimony is false." He was found false and was convicted. "

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