It was confirmed that Lee Jae-myeong, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, who was indicted on charges of third-party bribery related to the Ssangbangwool Group’s illegal remittance to North Korea case, requested reallocation from the court. This court sentenced former Gyeonggi Province Vice Governor for Peace Lee Hwa-young, who was an accomplice to Representative Lee, to 9 years and 6 months in prison.
According to the legal community on the 3rd, Law Firm S, which is in charge of representing Lee, requested reassignment to the 11th Criminal Division of the Suwon District Court (Chief Judge Shin Jin-woo) on the 30th of last month with a ‘written opinion on the progress of the trial procedure’. The background of the request for reallocation is unknown, but considering the contents of the bill proposed by the Democratic Party on the day Representative Lee submitted his opinion, the request for reallocation was made to avoid the court that sentenced former Deputy Governor Lee, an accomplice, to 9 years and 6 months in prison in the first trial in June. Analysis suggests that this may be the case.
Previously, Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Geon-tae proposed a revision to the Criminal Procedure Act on the 30th of last month. The current law provides grounds for exclusion when a judge is a victim, a party to a case, or is involved in a pre-trial trial, but Rep. Lee’s amendment includes provisions to include cases where a judge is found guilty of an accomplice as grounds for exclusion. .
Representative Lee’s side also filed an application in July to have the Ssangbangwool remittance case to North Korea be tried at the Seoul Central District Court, where the Daejang-dong, Baekhyeon-dong, Seongnam FC, and Wirye suspicion cases are currently being tried, but the Supreme Court rejected it. The Supreme Court did not provide a separate reason for the dismissal, but the legal community interpreted the decision as taking into account the risk of excessive delays in trials if the cases were merged.
Kim So-young, Donga.com reporter [email protected]
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2024-10-03 16:33:53