Prosecutor Han Dong-hoon criticized Yoo Si-min, the former chairman of the Roh Moo-hyung Foundation, who is being tried for defaming his reputation, for "cosplaying the weak."
Prosecutor Han issued a statement today (8th) and said, "I made a mistake because I lied, and former Chairman Yoo, who made a sincere public apology that he would take heavy responsibility, has now changed his words to say, 'I have no regrets'."
Former Chairman Yoo appeared at the decision hearing held at the Seoul Western District Court yesterday and said, "I don't think he has defamed his reputation, saying, "I have nothing to do with a prosecutor who raised suspicions on YouTube, and I have never done anything consciously." "He said.
He continued, "Even if I am punished, I have no choice but to do it, and I have no regrets for what I did."
Regarding this, a prosecutor said, "It wasn't that former Chairman Yoo made a mistake because he didn't know, but because Lee Dong-jae, a former Channel A reporter, was arrested, he intentionally appeared on the show on the morning of the Prosecutor's Investigation Deliberation Committee and deliberately harmed him." claimed that
In December 2019, former chairman Yoo made a remark to the effect that "the Anti-Corruption and Violence Department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office illegally tracked him and the Roh Moo-hyung Foundation account at the end of November or early December of 2019" in the YouTube channel 'Alileo' and subsequent media interviews. He was handed over to trial on charges of defaming the honor of a prosecutor who was the head of the Anti-Corruption and Violence Department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.
Then, in January of last year, former Chairman Yoo posted an apology on the website of the Roh Moo-hyung Foundation, acknowledging that his claims were false.
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