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In the prosecution’s request for an arrest warrant for Lee Jae-myeong, the Democratic Party’s representative, it was stated that the main motive for the alleged breach of trust was political gain.
The prosecution has yet to confirm the circumstances in which the back money went directly to Lee, but future prosecution investigations are expected to focus on clarifying this.
Reporter Choi Min-gi reports.
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The amount of breach of trust in the Daejang-dong case, which the prosecution indicated in the request for an arrest warrant for Lee Jae-myeong, is ‘489.5 billion won’.
Of the 960 billion won in housing site development revenue and apartment sale revenue, the corporation should have earned 672.5 billion won, or 70% of the fair profit, but it received only a fixed profit of 183 billion won, and it is calculated that it caused that much damage to Seongnam City.
On the other hand, CEO Lee not only denies the allegation of breach of trust itself, but also claims that the public refund amount is 550.3 billion won when adding the priority dividend of 182.2 billion won, plus the cost of 256.1 billion won for park development in Industrial Complex 1 and the private burden such as the Seopangyo Tunnel construction cost.
It is emphasized that this is an acknowledged fact in the Supreme Court ruling related to the previous charge of false information.
Even with regard to ‘intentionality’, which is the key to proving the allegation of breach of trust, the difference between the prosecution and Lee’s position is clear.
The prosecution stated in the warrant request that Lee’s ‘political gain’, such as the re-election of the mayor of Seongnam and the fulfillment of the pledge for this, was the motive for the breach of trust with a private contractor.
On the other hand, CEO Lee is refuting the fact that not a penny of the development profits that flowed into him through the investigation came out.
[이재명 / 더불어민주당 대표(지난 16일) : 단 한 점의 부정행위를 한 바가 없고, 부정한 돈 단 한 푼 취한 바가 없습니다.]
Of course, the prosecution is confident that they have secured enough evidence to prove the charges.
[이원석 / 검찰총장(지난 16일) : 충분한 물적증거와 인적증거, 서면과 서류를 이미 확보한 상황이다, 그렇지 않으면 말씀하신 대로 야당대표에 대해서 구속영장을 청구할 수 없는 것입니다.]
However, even though it is an interim result of an extensive investigation that has continued for a year and five months, it is pointed out that the clarity is not enough to resolve the suspicions that have been raised.
In particular, it is still unclear whether the final destination of the back money and development profits that Lee’s aides received or were promised to receive is Lee’s final destination.
Daejang-dong development profits ‘42.8 billion won’ is a representative case, and it was recorded as a crime in the indictment of former chief Jeong Jin-sang, Lee’s closest aide, but it was not included in Lee’s warrant request.
The same is true of the 840 million won in the presidential election fund that former vice president Kim Yong received and took care of.
First of all, the prosecution focused on opening Kim’s closed mouth by summoning Kim Man-bae from the detention center for the first time after re-arrest.
In that it is directly related to the intention or motive of the astronomical breach of trust, future prosecution investigations are expected to focus on covering the ‘economic gain’ that CEO Lee took.
This is YTN Choi Min-ki.
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