Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 1 (Chief Prosecutor Eom Hee-joon) today (16th) requested an arrest warrant for Jeong Jin-sang, head of the Political Coordination Office of the Representative Office, who is the closest aide to Lee Jae-myeong of the Democratic Party of Korea, on charges of bribery under the Special Act.
From February 2013 to October 2020, while serving as Seongnam City's policy secretary and Gyeonggi-do's policy chief, Dong-gyu Yoo, former head of the Planning Headquarters of Seongnam Urban Development Corporation, and other 'Daejang-dong gang' received a total of 1. He is accused of receiving 40 million won in money and valuables.
In February 2015, in exchange for the selection of a Daejang-dong development operator, Kim Yong, vice president of the Democratic Research Institute, and Yu Jeon, general manager, promised to share 24.5% of common stock shares (KRW 42.8 billion after tax) of a private businessman, Kim Man-bae (bribe after tax). .
From July 2013 to March 2017, internal secrets of Seongnam City and Seongnam Urban Development Corporation were leaked to private contractors such as Nam-wook, so that they were selected as operators of the Wirye New Town development project, and Hoban Construction was implemented and constructed, and development revenue of 21 billion won The charge of acquiring the equivalent of KRW (violation of the Anti-Corruption Act) was also applied.
On September 29 of last year, when the prosecution's search and seizure was imminent, he is also charged with instructing former general manager Yoo to throw his cell phone out the window (evidence destruction).
Prosecutors summoned Chief Chung as a suspect yesterday and investigated him for about 14 hours.
Chief Chung is known to have completely denied his allegations and allegations of Lee's involvement in the prosecution.
Chief Jung's claim is that the prosecution made up the facts of the crime unreasonably by believing only the statements of officials, including former head Yu, without clear physical evidence.
The prosecution requested an arrest warrant one day after the investigation, seeing that Chung strongly denied the charges and that there was a risk of destroying evidence.
Prosecutors are suspicious of the fact that the operating system was reinstalled on the computer Chung was using while searching and seizing the office of the Democratic Party representative at the National Assembly headquarters on the 9th.
It is expected that the interrogation of the suspect before the arrest of Chief Chung will be held at the Seoul Central District Court around the 18th.
Prosecutors plan to investigate Lee's relationship in earnest after securing the identity of Chief Chung.
In the mid-1990s, Mr. Chung was counted as a 'trustee' who closely assisted various elections and Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, and the Democratic Party after making a relationship with Lee when he was working as a lawyer in Seongnam.
Prosecutors suspect that the money Jung received from the Daejang-dong gang was used for Lee's "political interests," as the two are a "political community."