Yoo
Dong-gyu, the former head of Seongnam Urban Development Volunteer, who is a key figure in the suspicion of preferential treatment in Daejang-dong, made an extreme choice in the detention center, said Yoo.
He said that he took several sleeping pills at once, but the Ministry of Justice refuted that this was not true.
Reporter Hong Young-jae reported.
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Yoo Dong-gyu, the former head of the Seoul Detention Center, who was arrested on charges of breach of trust in October last year and did not wake up until yesterday (20th).
A detention center official sent Yoo to the emergency room of a nearby hospital, and he recovered and returned to the detention center in the afternoon.
Yoo's side claimed that he made an extreme choice.
Yoo's lawyer said that he wanted to die rather than causing damage to his family for a long time as the length of detention was extended on charges that he had the man behind him break his cell phone and then throw it away. He put 50 sleeping pills he had and made an extreme choice. I explained what I was going to do.
Yoo's six-month detention period ended yesterday, but the period of imprisonment for up to six months was extended by the issuance of an additional arrest warrant.
He also said that Mr. Yoo left a will in the room of the detention center.
The Ministry of Justice denied all these allegations.
Considering Yoo's medical history and CCTV footage in the detention center, he said that he did not view it as an extreme choice attempt.
He took the medicine prescribed by the doctor, and the amount he actually took was less than Yoo claimed.
[Correctional Authority Staff: You take the medicine as prescribed.
Other than that, there is no such thing as taking 50 sleeping pills as he claimed to be taking medicine.]
Yoo said that the correctional authorities seemed to have made a judgment based on only some of Mr.