Five years in prison were demanded for independent lawmaker Yoon Mi-hyang (58), who was handed over to trial on charges of privately misappropriating funds from the Justice and Memory Solidarity (Jeong Eui-yeon) to resolve the issue of Japanese military sexual slavery.
The prosecution requested such a sentence from Rep. Yoon at the decision trial held today (6th) at the hearing of the 11th part of the criminal agreement of the Seoul Western District Court.
A three-year prison sentence was sought for Mr. Kim (48), who was also indicted together, a director of the Jeonguiyeonyeon and a former executive director of the Korean Association for Voluntary Slavery Issues (Jeongdaehyeop).
The prosecution said, "There are many types of criminal acts over a long period of time, the crime is serious, and as the group's chief executive and working-level manager, he does not show any signs of remorse even though he led the crime."
Prosecutors said, "He committed an embezzlement crime in the process of using the funds raised by citizens as if they were his own pocket money for the grandmothers who suffered for a long time, and using the funds of the Daehyeop Jeongdaehyeop as if they were an individual entrepreneur." The possibility of criticism is very high."
Rep. Yoon and Mr. Kim collected a total of 4.1 billion won in donations through a group account from 2015 to 2019 without registering with the competent government office, and 170 million won in donations in the name of funeral expenses for grandmother Bok-dong Kim or support for victims of sexual violence in overseas exhibitions. He was indicted without detention in September 2020 on charges of raising money in his personal account.
Prosecutors believe that Rep. Yoon used a total of 100 million won for personal purposes, including funeral expenses for comfort women victims who were raised in his personal account from 2011 to 2020, and funds transferred from the Daehyup Daehyup corporate account and the account for storage of operating expenses of comfort women shelters. I did.
Rep. Yoon and Mr. Kim falsely applied for and registered as curators at the War and Women's Human Rights Museum operated by Jeongdaehyup, and unfairly received over 300 million won in subsidies from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Seoul Metropolitan Government from 2013 to 2020.
They are also accused of using the mental and physical disabilities of the late Gil Won-ok, who was diagnosed with severe dementia, to donate 50 million won out of the 100 million won prize for the Women's Human Rights Award to the Justice and Memory Foundation, and buying a comfort women shelter in Anseong, Gyeonggi-do at a higher price than the market price. there is.
Suspicion of poor accounting by Jeonguiyeon and Jeongdaehyeop was raised through various media outlets after a press conference in Daegu in May 2020 by grandmother Lee Yong-soo, a victim of comfort women for the Japanese military.
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