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Yoon Woo-jin, the former head of Yongsan Tax Office, was arrested on charges of receiving money to avoid a tax investigation. As the suspicion of Yoon Seok-yeol, a presidential candidate for People's Strength, introduced a lawyer while former Chief Yoon was being investigated for other charges in the past, it is interesting to see how the arrest of former Chief Yoon will affect him.
Correspondent Kim Kwan-jin.
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Yoon Woo-jin, the former chief of Yongsan Tax Office, was arrested last night.
Judge Lee Se-chang of the Seoul Central District Court in charge of warrants 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."
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.
[Yoon Woo-jin / Former Chief of Yongsan Tax Office: (Do you admit to the charge of receiving 130 million won from a developer, etc.?) … … .]
Former Chief Yoon is also being investigated 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, there were suspicions that there was no protection from the prosecution behind the background that Yoon escaped abroad and was arrested and sent.
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.