2024-07-13 10:03:10
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office stated that the application for trial consolidation by former Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myung was “only an application to delay the trial and avoid sentencing,” and that the Daejang-dong and Wirye New Town cases should be separated and sentenced first.
According to the legal community on the 12th, the prosecution submitted a statement opposing the merger with the same content to the Supreme Court and Seoul Central District Court on the 10th.
Previously, the former representative’s side applied to the Supreme Court to merge the Ssangbangwool remittance to North Korea case in the Suwon District Court with the ‘Daejang-dong, Baekhyeon-dong, Wirye New Town, Seongnam FC’ trial currently in progress in the Central District Court.
The prosecution pointed out that the Suwon District Court case and the Central District Court case are completely different in terms of the time of the crime, the issues at stake, and the people involved. The Suwon District Court’s Ssangbangwool remittance to North Korea case is related to bribery in connection with the North Korean business rights when the former CEO was the governor of Gyeonggi Province, while the Central District Court case is related to bribery in connection with real estate development corruption and permits when the former mayor of Seongnam City, so there is a big difference, they explained.
Rather, the prosecution saw a greater need for the court to separate the Daejang-dong and Wirye New Town cases from the Daejang-dong, Baekhyeon-dong, Wirye New Town, and Seongnam FC cases and sentence them separately.
In the case of the Daejang-dong and Wirye New Town incidents, the trial has progressed considerably, and the people involved in the incidents are the same as the Daejang-dong private business owners Nam-wook, Jeong Yeong-hak, and Kim Man-bae, and the timing of the crimes, issues at issue, and case structure are also similar.
The prosecution emphasized, “If completely unrelated cases are combined in a situation where separate arguments and sentencing must be considered, it will go against the principle of a speedy trial due to delays in the trial and will cause significant difficulties in discovering the substantive truth.”
Currently, the former representative is being tried in four trials simultaneously on a total of 11 charges, including violation of the Public Official Election Act, Daejang-dong, Baekhyeon-dong, Wirye New Town, and Seongnam FC cases, false witness instigation case, and Ssangbangwool remittance to North Korea case.
Among the four trials, the Daejang-dong, Baekhyeon-dong, and Wirye New Town development corruption cases and the Seongnam FC illegal sponsorship cases are the slowest to progress because they are merged and the records are huge. When the court previously assigned the false testimony instigation case to the same court as the Daejang-dong, Wirye New Town, and Seongnam FC cases, the ruling party objected, saying that if they were all merged, it would be impossible to know when the first trial verdict would come out.
Meanwhile, the trial for the charge of violating the Public Official Election Act will be held on September 6, and the trial for the charge of false testimony will be held on September 30. Usually, the sentencing results are released as early as a month after the trial for the charge requested by the prosecution.
(Seoul = News 1)
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