2023-05-04 18:18:33
On the 4th, the prosecution investigating the Democratic Party’s’suspicion of money envelopes for the 2021 National Convention’ re-applied for an arrest warrant for Kang Rae-gu, a former standing auditor of Korea Water Resources Corporation.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office’s Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 2 (Chief Prosecutor Kim Yeong-chul) said on the same day that it requested an arrest warrant for Kang again on charges of violating political party laws and taking bribes, considering the seriousness of the case and the circumstances surrounding the destruction of additional evidence.
It has been 13 days since the first arrest warrant requested for Kang on the 21st of last month was dismissed.
The suspect’s interrogation (warrant review) before arrest for Mr. Kang will be held on the 8th at 2:00 p.m.
According to the prosecution, Mr. Kang colluded with Democratic Party lawmakers Yoon Kwan-seok and Lee Seong-man and former Democratic Party secretary general Lee Jeong-geun (arrested prosecution) from March to May 2021 to pay a total of 94 million won to members of the National Assembly to win former leader Song Young-gil elected at the party convention. He is accused of ordering, soliciting, and providing money or valuables.
Prosecutors believe that Kang procured 80 million won from the businessman Mr. Kim, who was designated as a sponsor.
According to the search and seizure warrant for Congressman Yoon and others, in April 2021, in accordance with Congressman Yoon’s instructions that ‘it is necessary to sprinkle money to maintain the existing support tax’, Mr. Kang prepared a total of 60 million won, and this money was split into 3 million won each, It was delivered to 10 to 20 members of the National Assembly.
In addition, according to Mr. Kang’s proposal to ‘use it to recruit national delegates and rights party members’, a total of 14 million won was handed over to 10 regional headquarters and 7 people on March 30 and April 11, 2021, respectively.
At the end of April of that year, he personally raised a total of 20 million won, saying that the head of the regional situation office should encourage the election campaign, and this money was delivered twice to 20 heads of the regional situation office, each of 500,000 won.
The prosecution did not apply the charge of violating the Political Fund Act, which was included in the search warrant, as it needed additional confirmation on the source of the funds.
Prosecutors also charged Kang with accepting 3 million won from a businessman in September 2020 under the pretext of asking for a supply of power plant equipment under the Water Resources Corporation.
Kang is known to have denied the charges during the prosecution’s investigation.
After the arrest warrant for Kang was dismissed once, the prosecution has been conducting reinforcement investigations by calling in one after another Mr. Park, who served as an aide to Song, and the head of the regional headquarters, who was designated as the recipient.
During this process, the prosecution additionally captured the circumstances of the systematic destruction of evidence between Mr. Kang and his accomplice.
On the 12th of last month, after the money envelope investigation began in earnest with the seizure and search of Congressman Yoon, etc., it was confirmed that some computer hard disks were formatted or replaced within the ‘Peace and Living Issue Research Institute’ (Muksayeon), an organization sponsored by former CEO Song. did. Prosecutors suspect that members of Meoksayeon tried to systematically destroy evidence after contacting former CEO Song.
In addition, considering the fact that Mr. Park, who was in charge of accounting at the camp and muksayeon, recently visited Paris, France, where former CEO Song was staying, there is a possibility that ‘matching words’ was done.
The submission of a reset cell phone to the prosecution by former CEO Song, who mentioned “exercising the right of defense,” is also regarded by the prosecution as one of the circumstances of the destruction of evidence.
An official from the prosecution said, “We believe that a large number of people involved in the case concealed the case and destroyed or concealed the data to hinder the investigation of the actual truth.” I think it was,” he said.
Prosecutors plan to focus on securing Kang’s recruits and investigating how the funds were procured and delivered. After investigating Rep. Yun and Rep. Lee, it seems that they will move on to former CEO Song, who was designated as the final beneficiary of the distribution of money and valuables.
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