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Prosecutors, who are investigating the allegations of embezzlement by the Ssangbangbang Group, are raiding and searching the Gyeonggi Provincial Office today (7th).
Suwon District Prosecutor's Office 6th Criminal Division (Prosecutor Kim Young-nam) sent investigators to the Peace Cooperation Bureau of the Northern Government Complex in Uijeongbu-si, Gyeonggi-do, the Communication Cooperation Bureau of the Southern Government Complex in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, and the Deputy Economic Affairs Office to secure related data.
The location is known to be related to KINTEX CEO Lee Hwa-young, who served as Gyeonggi-do Peace Governor from 2018 to 2020.
The search and seizure targets included the office of the CEO of KINTEX.
Today's raid is reported to be related to the suspicion that Gyeonggi Province paid 800 million won for an exchange event with North Korea hosted by the Asia Pacific Peace Exchange Association in 2018.
Such suspicions have recently been raised through politicians.
Analysis of whether the Suwon District Prosecutor's Office, which is investigating the allegation of payment of attorney fees by Lee Jae-myung, president of the Democratic Party of Korea, is actively looking into whether there is some kind of relationship between Lee Jae-myeong and Ssang-Bul while carrying out an extensive search and seizure of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office where Lee worked today. this comes out
Detective Division 6 is investigating the process of selling SsangBall's convertible bonds (CB) worth 4.5 billion won issued in 2020 after receiving data on SsangBall's suspicious money flow from the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).