[Sell to the end ②] "I took the 63 building, but the foundation is God's enterprise"

<Anchor> As you have

just seen, the Torch Foundation is estimated to have over 200 billion won in assets identified so far.

Former Chairman Soon-Young Choi said that the government took away the Shindong-A Group he had, but the Torch Foundation was a God-owned enterprise, so he couldn't.

Then we checked who the actual owner of this foundation is.

This is reporter Kwon Ji-yoon.

<Reporter>

Former Chairman Soon-Young Choi, who has not paid more than KRW 100 billion in taxes for more than 14 years after conviction,

[Soon-

Young

Choi/Former Chairman of Shin Dong-A Group (2015): During the Kim Dae-jung regime, suddenly overnight Shin Dong-A Group had 22 affiliates with nothing to do with the 63 building, and they took me all out of the country.] The

company was stolen, but the Torch Foundation was kept.

[Choi Soon-young/Former Chairman of Shin Dong-A Group (2015): This (Torch Foundation) is God's institution, so God prevented it from taking it.

Sometimes I complain to God.

How do you take all of my business and leave only God's company?]

Former Chairman Choi founded the Torch Foundation in 1989 and served as the Chairman of the Board until 1999, before his arrest, followed by his wife, Hyung-Ja Lee, twice as Chairman of the Foundation. Leading.

In the meantime, Pastor A took the position of chairman, and Pastor A met with reporters and said that the former President and Mrs. Choi asked for and accepted that they had only the name of the chairman and honorary positions, and that he was not involved in the foundation work in the United States during that period.

At this time, it means that Lee Hyung-ja was actually running the foundation as a director, but in the end, for 32 years after the foundation was established, the former chairman and wife Choe played the main role.

In the foundation's articles of association, the term of office for executives such as the chairman and directors is three years, but there is no regulation limiting the term of office and there is a method for selecting executives, but there is no method for selecting the chairman.

This is the reason why Mrs. Choi's long-term power was possible.

The salary of the chairman that the reporters were able to check was 15 million won at the time in 2013 and over 180 million won by Chairman Lee Hyung-ja every year, but this does not include the salary of the chairman of Torchlight Academy, who is concurrently serving.

The chairman oversees the work of the foundation, and as the chairman of the board of directors, he can dispose of and acquire property, elect executives, and set the salary of the chairman himself.

[Pastor Bong-Sik Bee/Church and Faith: (Choi Soon-young and Lee Hyeong-ja) The two people took turns changing the chairmanship and eventually privatized the foundation.

It was inevitable that the couple's powerful power could not properly play a role in any internal surveillance.] The

reason why the husband, former chairman Choi and his two sons, were able to live in a luxury villa owned by the Foundation for free and continue a wealthy life is.

However, former chairman Choi is holding on to the foundation's assets, saying that he has no money to pay any additional fees or taxes.

The president of the company that created the foundation shows that even if the company goes bankrupt or does not pay a large amount of additional taxes and taxes, he can still live well and pass on wealth.If this behavior is left unattended, it will block economic interests and prevent crime. The value of the additional punishment system disappears.

(Video coverage: Moonsan Bae, video editing: Hongmyeong Lee, CG: Sungyong Hong·Jaeyoung Choi, screen source: YouTube CGNTV)

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<Anchor>

Reporter Jiyoon Kwon from the Panda Team has been covering this for a long time.

[Reporter Kwon Ji-yoon: Yes, the surcharge is not transferred or inherited to others.

If the former chairman Choi Soon-young endures payment because he has no income and no property in his own name, and he dies, that is the end.]

[Reporter Ji-yoon Kwon: The foundation of the foundation was given by the former chairman Choi and I told you the fact that illegal funds have flowed into it.

The so-called Chun Doo-Hwan Additional Collection Act, the criminal confiscation law of public officials, can enforce additional fines for third parties who know that it is illegal property, but there is no such provision in the law that applies to economic offenders.

Even if the law is revised, it is difficult to retroactively, and since foundation assets have been mixed for a long period of time, it is not easy to prove how far to consider it as illegal property that can be

.]

to improve the additional

[Reporter Kwon Ji-yoon: Under the current law, there is no means of sanctions even if you do not pay additional fines.

So, as in the UK, France, and Singapore, let's introduce a so-called voluntary payment induction device that deliberately detains or detains deliberate nonpayers to labor camps.

The Legislative Investigation Office also issued such a report.

Although there are concerns about infringement of basic rights, it seems necessary to discuss in earnest as criminals can enjoy economic gains while neglecting the reality that they endure without paying additional taxes, and they can nourish another crime and lower citizens' consciousness of justice and justice.] 

▶ [Sell to the end ①] When I traced the property of the Torch Foundation...

200 billion units estimated