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Yoon Woo-jin, the former head of Yongsan Tax Office, who is accused of receiving money in exchange for solicitation, was arrested a while ago. As he is the older brother of Yoon Seok-yeol, the closest presidential candidate for People's Power, I am interested in how the arrest of former chief Yoon will affect him.
Reporter Ko Jung-hyun on the sidewalk.
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Yoon Woo-jin, the former chief of Yongsan Tax Office, was arrested a while ago.
Judge Lee Se-chang in charge of warrants at the Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for Yoon, saying, "There is a fear that the criminal charges will be cleared, there is a fear of destroying evidence and fear of running away."
Former Chief Yoon
appeared
at the court on the morning of the 7th and
kept quiet
,
[Yoon Woo-jin / Former Yongsan Tax Office Chief: (Do you admit to the charge of receiving 130 million won from a developer, etc.?) .... ] After
13 hours, an arrest warrant was issued and he was imprisoned in the Seoul Detention Center.
Yoon is accused of receiving money and valuables worth 130 million won from two people, including a real estate developer, in the name of making a solicitation to the tax authorities from 2017 to the following year.
Recently, a video was released of former Chief Yoon handing a check worth 110 million won to the real estate developer.
Yoon is also under investigation by the prosecution on other charges.
I received a police investigation in 2012 regarding a meat importer, and it is suspected that the investigation was thwarted by mobilizing connections in the legal world.
At that time, even though former Chief Yoon had fled to a foreign country and was arrested and sent, there was some doubt as to whether there was protection from the prosecution behind the background of avoiding arrest.
There have also been suspicions that Candidate Seok-Yeol Yoon, who was then the head of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, introduced a lawyer to Yoon, and the prosecution's investigation into these allegations is expected to gain momentum as the former chief Yoon was arrested.