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Kim Yong, a close aide to Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, was arrested on charges of receiving more than 800 million won from a Daejang-dong business operator, and an arrest warrant was also requested shortly thereafter.
The warrant review will be held shortly.
Let's go to the Seoul Central District Court, where the warrant review will be held.
When will the warrant review for reporter Park Ye-rin and Kim Yong-yong start?
Is it half past three?
<Reporter>
Yes, the prosecution requested an arrest warrant for Kim at the dawn of today (21st), and the court scheduled a substantive examination of the warrant shortly after 3:30 pm.
Deputy Director Kim will be moved to the courtroom where the warrant review will be held under arrest.
Vice President Kim is accused of receiving 847 million won from Attorney Nam Wook four times in the course of preparing for the 20th presidential election from April to August last year in collusion with Yoo Dong-gyu, former head of Seongnam Urban Development Corporation.
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Depending on whether Vice President Yong Kim is arrested or not, it seems that the investigation into CEO Lee Jae-myung may be immediately followed.
<Reporter>
Yes, the prosecution defined the nature of the money that Vice President Kim received as the presidential election fund for Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung.
Representative Lee Jae-myung registered as a preliminary candidate for the presidential election on June 30 and entered the presidential election in earnest.
Deputy Director Kim was in charge of the competition process as the vice president of the general election camp in July.
If an arrest warrant is issued for Vice-President Kim, it is expected that the investigation into President Lee's presidential election funds will begin in earnest along with the prosecution's investigation into the use of the law.
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Reporter Ye-rin Park, said that in connection with the attack on the West Sea, a warrant review is being held for former Defense Minister Seo Wook and former Commissioner of the Korea Coast Guard Kim Hong-hee?
<Reporter>
Yes, the warrant review for former Defense Minister Seo Wook, which started at 10 am today (21st), has been taking place considerably longer than usual.
Former Minister Seo, who appeared at the Seoul Central District Court at around 9:40 am today, declined to speak to reporters' questions.
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The charges that the prosecution applied against former Minister Seo include abuse of power and preparation of false public documents.
Former Minister Seo is facing charges including the judgment that Lee voluntarily defected to North Korea in the early hours of the day after the death of the late Lee Dae-joon and ordering the deletion of 60 conflicting military secrets.
Also, the substantive examination of the warrant against Kim Hong-hee, former Commissioner of the Coast Guard, started at 2 pm a little while ago.
Kim Hong-hee, the former head of the Coast Guard, who led the search for missing persons and announcing the details at the time of the incident, is accused of concealing existing evidence and distorting the results of the experiment in line with the policy of the Blue House National Security Office to voluntarily announce the results of an investigation focusing on North Korea.
When the arrest warrants for the head of the Ministry of National Defense and Coast Guard are issued, the investigation into former Director Park Ji-won of the National Intelligence Service, which has revealed the deletion of documents similar to the former National Security Office Director Seo Hoon, who is pointed out as a superior, is expected to speed up.