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We will deliver one of our exclusive coverage.

Independent Rep. Park Deok-heum, who is under suspicion of winning orders for hundreds of billions of won from the audited organization, has strongly denied all suspicions surrounding him.



[Representative Park Deok-heum: We express our deep regret for the unfounded slander and distorted reports by the ruling party and the majority of the media.]



Among the contents that the prosecution and police are currently looking into in the investigation of Rep

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Park Deok-heum are four years ago, at the time of the 2016 general election. It also includes political funding issues.

We are re-investigating the case that has already been conducted once and has been fuzzy, but our coverage team has confirmed that new evidence has been submitted to the prosecution.



Reporter Choi Woon and Kim Kwan-jin reported exclusively.



<Reporter Choi Choi>



May 2016, just after the 20th general election.



Shin Mo, who was the central chairman of the Professional Construction Association, brought a former presidency to the chairman's office.



At this meeting, multiple attendees claimed that Shin reported that he had sprinkled political funds with association money to congressional candidates ahead of the general election.




[Participants at the 2016 Specialized Construction Association Conference: How much he gave to about thirty few candidates for the elected National Assembly...

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[Participants at the 2016 Specialized Construction Association Conference: General work reports were made by the head of the working group.

(Headquarters) sent out.

(Chairman) I will lock the door and report on the 4·13 election.

I took 500 million and distributed it directly to 30 people, but I paid some ○○○...

] There



was also a police statement from the former president of the regional association that he heard the fact that two million won in public money was delivered to the opposition candidates running for Gyeonggi-do.



Former executives of the Professional Construction Association raised suspicions that Rep. Park Deok-heum had been influential in this process.



It is said that it is difficult to deliver money unless the immediate past president of the association and the then active member of the legislator Park communicates with the candidates in advance.



[Former executive of the Professional Construction Association: Do you go to anyone and give you money in order to be embarrassed by giving you (money)?

(Do you think it has been stopped beforehand?) Yes.

Someone told me to give it to me (I'm going).

Then, he becomes the guarantor.] The



Special Investigation Division of the National Police Agency, who investigated this case at the time, confirmed that the money flowed to three lawmakers, including Congressman Park, through seizure and search.



However, only three city and provincial presidents who handed the money were entrusted, claiming that the association officials who sent the money had sponsored it with personal money rather than public money.



Rep. Park Deok-heum returned 20 million won saying he received it without knowing, and no further investigation was conducted.



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The names of active lawmakers have gone up and down, and some have confirmed that the money has been handed over, but the investigation has been sluggish.



The police could not prove that the money of the Professional Construction Association was delivered, but a document to reverse the situation was submitted to the prosecution, and this document was obtained by our reporters.



In a 2016 investigation, the police found several traces of the support of three active lawmakers, including Rep. Park Deok-heum, by officials from the Professional Construction Association.



The money was split in the name of the members of the association, their employees, and their families and deposited into the accounts of the lawmakers, and we found evidence that these members had been preserved as association sales fees.



At the time, the police saw that the association's public funds were converted into personal donations and collected investigation, but eventually failed to prove it.



It was crucial that the association submitted a receipt attached to the police saying that the association had bought a television or held a unity contest for the suspicious expenditure of the sale.



[At the time, a person from the police investigation team (voice band): I made a receipt with cash out of all the expenses such as Pangong.

I checked a lot, if not most of them.]



However, it was

confirmed that the

content that reversed the situation at the time was recently submitted to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, which is undergoing a re-investigation.



This confirmation, obtained by SBS, was prepared by a local executive of the Professional Construction Association, and contains the content that the sponsorship was directly delivered as an association public money to candidates in certain regions in Gyeonggi-do during the 2016 general election.



In particular, when the investigation took place, he submitted a receipt to the police that he bought a television with public money and used it for a unity contest, which he revealed was a fake receipt made under the direction of the Central Committee of the Professional Construction Association in order to hide the sponsorship of the association.



The prosecution, who is investigating the accusation case against Rep. Park Deok-heum and the then-president of the Association, is planning to investigate how much public money was distributed to whom and under the direction of the Special Construction Association at the time of the 2016 general election, based on newly revealed evidence and testimony. It's possible.



(Video coverage: Moonsan Bae, video editing: Jihye So, CG: Sungyong Hong, VJ: Junho Kim)