The World Peace and Unification Family Federation (formerly the Unification Church), which is suspected of giving money and gifts to former President Yoon Seok-yeol and his wife through the prayer leader Jeong Seong-bae (65), also known as “Keon Jin Puppet Master,”
According to legal circles, the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office's Joint Investigation Division for Virtual Currency Crimes has barred the departure of a former executive couple of the Unification Church.
The prosecution is currently arranging the date for Lee's interrogation. In 2022, the Yoon couple sent 600,000 yen to Kim Gun-Hee, the former first lady, through Chung.
The prosecution alleges that Yoon and Lee approached Jung and offered him money and gifts in order to receive benefits.
However, it was learned that Chung had stated that "the necklace was lost and I never gave it to Mrs. Kim."
The prosecution said Yoon had engaged in YT projects, including supporting Cambodia's Mekong River development project, through Chung.
They are also investigating whether he tried to bribe N and extract favors, such as bringing the UN's Fifth Secretariat to South Korea and inviting him to the presidential inauguration.
In 2015, the former Unification Church held the UN5 Peace Memorial Park in the DMZ (demilitarized zone) in Gyeonggi Province for peace on the Korean Peninsula.
The Global Peace Foundation, established by Moon Hyun Jin, the third son of the founder of the former Unification Church, joined the bidding war for YTN in 2023, but is seeking to attract the YUJIN Group.
Loop was selected as the final bidder, and the acquisition failed. Prosecutors are also investigating Chung, who is alleged to have received money and gifts from the Yoon couple. Prosecutors are investigating two cases of funds deposited in Chung's wife's account.
We have obtained a breakdown of the approximately 640 million won (approximately 66.9 million yen) that was deposited in the organization as prayer fees between July 2017 and December 2018.
Last year, prosecutors also conducted searches of Chung's courtroom and residence, and arrested numerous people including executives of major corporations, politicians, and law enforcement officials.
The prosecution has secured hundreds of business cards belonging to the Chosun administration and police officials. The prosecution has said that Chung acted as a "political broker" by giving and receiving money and goods from influential people under the pretext of "prayer fees" during the Yoon Seok-yeol administration.
The prosecution searched Chung's Seocho-gu home in December last year and found 3,300 50,000 won bills (165 million won/approximately 17.2 million yen).
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2025/05/06 07:02 KST
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