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Seongnam FC was founded in 2014 when Democratic presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung served as Seongnam Mayor.

And for three years from the following year, several companies in Seongnam City donated 16 billion won to Seongnam FC in the name of sponsorship and advertising expenses.

Suspicions have been raised that Seongnam City is paying for hearing the complaints of companies.

After that, the police, who investigated the case, decided to dismiss the case last year due to insufficient evidence, and the prosecution continued to review it.

However, the Deputy Prosecutor at the Seongnam District Office, who was looking into the case, suddenly resigned.



Reporter Kim Kwan-jin covered what happened.



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On the afternoon of the 25th, Deputy Prosecutor Park Ha-young of the Seongnam Branch posted a letter of resignation on the bulletin board inside the prosecution.



He said, "I tried to find another way to work more, but there was no other way."



Deputy Prosecutor Park has led the first detective division in charge of the Seongnam FC case.



In the background of the sudden death, it is known that there was a conflict with the branch manager Park Eun-jung over the investigation into the Seongnam FC case.



[Park Beom-gye, Minister of Justice: There seems to be a difference of opinion between the deputy chief and the branch chief.

I understand that there is a difference of opinion on the direction and method of supplementary investigation.]



After the police rejected the charges in September of last year, the first detective at the Seongnam District Office and the Deputy Prosecutor Park, who re-examined the case with the complaint of the accuser, are known to have expressed their position several times that a supplementary investigation is necessary to Park Eun-jung.



However, as Director Park delayed the decision, it spread to a controversy over the procrastination of the investigation.



The Seongnam branch explained, "This is a case in which the branch investigation department and the police have concluded not guilty, and the two investigation records are being reviewed in accordance with the law and principles."



Prosecutor Park Eun-jung led the work of disciplinary action by Yoon Seok-yeol, a presidential candidate for the People's Strength, while serving as prosecutor general.



Prosecutor General Kim Oh-su ordered Shin Sung-sik, chief of the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office, to investigate the circumstances.



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Kim Kyung-yeon)