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Yoon Woo-jin, former head of Yongsan Tax Office, who is accused of accepting bribes in exchange for evading a tax investigation, has been handed over to trial. The prosecution, which had acquitted the same case six years ago, came to the opposite conclusion this time.



For more details, reporter Hong Young-jae will tell you.



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Yoon Woo-jin, former head of Yongsan Tax Office, was handed over to trial on charges of receiving bribes of 160 million won from the head of a tax firm and 43 million won from a meat importer over eight years.



The prosecution saw that it was a payment received in the name of avoiding a tax investigation.



It is the exact opposite conclusion after 6 years.



The police investigated Yoon's bribery allegations for two years starting in 2012, but they were blocked by the prosecutor's wall.



Although Yoon, who fled to Thailand during the investigation, was arrested and sent to the country, the prosecution did not ask the court for an arrest warrant requested by the police.



He also returned a search and seizure warrant from the police six times.



In the end, the prosecution dismissed all suspicions related to Yoon, which the police sent to the police with the opinion of indictment, in February 2015.



The suspicions were also focused on Yoon Dae-jin, the younger brother of Yoon's younger brother, the planning department director of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, and Yoon Seok-yeol, who was close with him, as the presidential candidate for the People's Power.



It was suspected that two prosecutors, Dae-jin Yoon and Seok-yeol Yoon, were using external pressure for Yoon, the former head of the tax office.



Prosecutors did not know the facts of this allegation of abuse of power.



The statute of limitations on the abuse of power has expired and the prosecution has no right to prosecute.



In response to the criticism that the investigation was not done properly during the first investigation, the prosecution explained that it was because they found new evidence, such as finding borrowed-name accounts of related persons through search and seizure and account tracking.



(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, Video editing: Hwang Ji-young)