Representative Lee Jae-myung's corporate card diversion suspicion... Prosecutors raid Gyeonggi Provincial Office = South Korea

Prosecutors, who are investigating the suspicion of diversion of corporate cards related to Lee Jae-myung, representative of South Korea's opposition Democratic Party, have launched a raid on the Gyeonggi-do Office.
On the 4th, the Suwon District Public Prosecutors Office's Public Investigation Department sent prosecutors and investigators to the Gyeonggi Provincial Office from this morning to secure materials related to this case. The target of the house search is the governor of Gyeonggi Province.
These include the secretary's office and the general affairs department. This incident was brought to light by the National Rights and Interest Commission, which examined the contents of the report by Cho Myung-hyun, a public interest whistleblower who worked at the Provincial Office when Lee was the governor of Gyeonggi Province.
took over the case and the investigation is underway. Cho said, ``The non-reporter (Representative Lee) abused his position and authority as governor of Gyeonggi Province, violated relevant laws, and used a corporate card that should be used for official business.
"He instructed Lee to use EMBEZZLEMENT or EMBEZZLEMENT for personal use, and even though he was aware of the fact of EMBEZZLEMENT, he acquiesced and acted to benefit his spouse," the statement said, and reported it to the National Rights and Interest Commission, asking for an investigation into Lee.
Prior to this, Cho also revealed last year that Lee's spouse, Kim Hye-kyung, and a certain Bae, a former 5th grade special officer in the General Affairs Division of the Gyeonggi Province Office, had misappropriated the Provincial Office's corporate card for personal use. There is.
As a result of the investigation at the time, only Mr. Bae was found guilty and brought to trial, and at the first trial in August this year, Mr. Bae was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years.
Later, in August, Cho asked the Rights and Interests Commission to investigate Lee's direction and tacit approval of the Provincial Office's corporate card diversion.
The case was reported to the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office and then handed over again to the Suwon District Public Prosecutors Office. Through this raid, the prosecution will investigate whether CEO Lee intervened in the process of diversion of corporate cards, as reported by Mr. Cho.
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