The prosecution captured circumstances in which Kim Man-bae, the majority shareholder of Hwacheon Dayyu, was busy preparing countermeasures by hunting down internal informants and holding countermeasures meetings with reporters outside when suspicions of the Daejangdong movement arose in September 2021. The prosecution, which is investigating suspicions of Mr. Kim’s false interview, suspects that Mr. Kim’s meeting with Shin Shin-rim, former chairman of the media union, was one of the countermeasures implemented in this series of processes. According to the CBS
Nocut News coverage on the 12th , Kim Man-bae was found to have quickly taken action to understand the situation and prepare countermeasures when an information sheet related to the Daejangdong suspicions was circulated mainly in the securities and political circles in August and September 2021. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s special investigation team on manipulation of public opinion in the presidential election (headed by Chief Prosecutor Kang Baek-shin) is known to have obtained and analyzed the transcript of a conversation between Mr. A, a key Hwacheon Dayyu official, and accountant Jeong Young-hak (owner of Cheonhwa-dongin No. 5) at that time. In this transcript, Mr. A said, “Senior (Kim Man-bae) cannot calmly look at things like this and say, ‘Someone from the insiders reported it.'” He added, “It is a problem that can be solved calmly, but it is as if a hotteok restaurant is on fire.” “I’m doing it,” he said. He continued, “We need to listen to reasonable opinions, but (now) what would be the use of holding a countermeasures meeting with outsiders and reporters?” He added, “It is impossible for us to stop the noise in Yeouido. There is no need to worry about media reports.” At the same time, he confessed, “I lost my cool as I thought about whether or not people on the inside had reported it to the outside world.”
At that time, the situation was just before accountant Jeong Young-hak submitted to the prosecution the so-called ‘Jeong Young-hak transcript’ containing the conversations of Daejeon-dong businessmen, and Mr. Kim was then subjected to a full-scale investigation by the prosecution, including search and seizure and summons.
It was also September 15, 2021, when Mr. Kim met with former Chairman Shin Shin-rim and talked about the Daejeon-dong suspicions in general. The prosecution believes that Mr. Kim attempted to destroy evidence from various angles and is reconstructing the situation at the time. The intention is that the encouragement of false statements against the Daejang-dong group and contact with a close associate of the Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myeong were planned in the same context.
The Daejang-dong suspicions were first reported in the form of a column in a local newspaper in Gyeonggi-do on August 31, 2021. As several articles continued intermittently, most media outlets began reporting, and the Chosun Ilbo published an article on its front page on September 13, 2021, titled “Lee Jae-myung-pyo’s company participating in Daejang-dong development, dividends of 57.7 billion over 3 years.” .
Mr. Kim met with former Chairman Shin on the 15th of that month and gave an interview to the effect that President Yoon Seok-yeol (then head of Central Water Division 2) had cleared up the investigation into the suspicion of serving as a broker for Daejang-dong business loan broker Woo-hyung Jo in the 2011 Busan Savings Bank incident. Prosecutors believe that former Chairman Kim later gave Shin about 160 million won in exchange for the interview.
In particular, the prosecution is grasping the full story by온라인바카라 capturing a number of circumstances in which Mr. Kim discussed the investigation situation with people around him. Investigative power is also being concentrated on finding traces of the involvement of the forces behind the series of processes aimed at changing the ‘main body’ of the Daejangdong suspicion from Representative Lee Jae-myung to President Yoon.
On September 14, 2021, the day before the interview between Mr. Kim and former Chairman Shin, Representative Lee held a press conference at the National Assembly and strongly denied the allegations of his involvement in corruption, saying, “The CEO of the investment company said that I looked like a communist communist.” In a conversation with Shin a day later, Mr. Kim said, “I cursed (Representative Lee) a lot. He’s such a bastard and a communist.”
Previously, the prosecution indicted Mr. Kim in March on charges of concealing the proceeds of crime, while Mr. Kim attempted to understand the status of the investigation of former party leader Jeong Jin-sang’s political affairs coordination office early last year, and in September 2021, he spoke twice with Kim Yong, former vice president of the Korea Institute for Democracy. The facts were stated in the indictment.
The prosecution is considering applying additional charges of defamation to Mr. Kim, who was booked on charges of breach of trust and violating the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. In this case, Mr. Kim can be indicted only if President Yoon, who is the victim, declares his intention to punish. The prosecution recognizes this case as an election crime, such as interference in the presidential election, but it cannot be applied to charges of violating the Public Official Election Act because the statute of limitations has expired.