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It has been confirmed that the prosecution has secured a statement that Kim Yong-gyu, deputy director of the Institute for Democracy, for whom a warrant was requested for receiving 800 million won from the Daejang-dong gang, requested money from Yoo Dong-gyu, the former head of the department, early last year.

Prosecutors believed that Vice President Kim requested money for the election at the time, and included this in the arrest warrant.



Reporter Ahn Hee-jae reported exclusively.



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] Kim Yong-gyu, deputy director of the Institute for Democracy, requested 2 billion won from the former head of Seongnam Urban Development Corporation Yoo Dong-gyu in February last year, the prosecution found out.



Of this, 840 million won actually went over, and the prosecution defined the nature of this money as the presidential election fund for Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung.



One of the grounds was confirmed as a result of SBS coverage, as it was the statement of former general manager Yoo that Vice-Chairman Kim asked for money saying, "I'm going around Gwangju."



Prosecutors interpreted this as a request for funds necessary for the primary election for the Democratic presidential nominee and included it in the arrest warrant for Kim.



CEO Jae-myung Lee visited Gwangju and Honam several times between January of last year and August of last year, when the preliminary elections were over, and worked hard to strengthen the public mind.



Camp personnel also visited Gwangju separately on behalf of Lee, who had to do the cleaning work as an incumbent governor.



Prosecutors are also said to have secured material evidence.



In particular, Mr. Lee, who is lawyer Nam Wook's money transfer book, left a memo recording the time, place, and amount of the money, and it is known that he recently secured it.



An investigation team was also sent to the home of lawyer Jeong Min-yong, which was considered to be the place where the money went, and started to secure evidence.



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Based on these statements and material evidence, the prosecution will consider the money received by Vice President Kim as the presidential election fund, and plan to start a full-scale investigation into the use case when a warrant is issued.



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Won-hee Won)