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The police, who have been investigating the 'Seongnam FC sponsorship allegation', have notified the prosecution of charges of third-party bribery against Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung.
The police, who made a decision not to appeal due to insufficient evidence in September last year, overturned the result after a year.
Reporter Shin Yong-shik reports.
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The new charge that the police applied to Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea in connection with the so-called 'Songnam FC sponsorship allegation' is third-party bribery.
When CEO Lee served as the mayor of Seongnam in 2015, the Doosan Group provided convenience, such as changing the 3,000 pyeong of Jeongja-dong Hospital in Bundang-gu owned by the Doosan Group to a commercial one. As a result of investigation into the allegation of paying 5 billion won to FC, it was decided that the allegations were admitted.
Accordingly, the same charges were applied to one Seongnam City Hall official who led the project at the time, and the former CEO of Doosan E&C was charged with bribery under the Criminal Code.
The police decided not to appeal the case in September last year, but at the request of the prosecution, in the course of the supplementary investigation, they listened to new statements from those involved in the case, and secured evidence to support this through a search and seizure, thus overturning the investigation result. I did.
At the time of the initial investigation, both Seongnam City and Doosan E&C claimed that there was no connection between the advertising sponsorship money and the change of use, but in the course of the supplementary investigation, it is said that the two sides had discussions on the change of use from the negotiation stage.
However, it said that it was determined that there were no allegations against five other companies in the jurisdiction, such as Naver and Nonghyup, which were suspected of similar sponsorship, as in the initial investigation.