Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office to investigate for Myung Tae-Kyun for the first time this week

Prosecutors will investigate Myung Tae-Kyun for the first time after transferring the investigation of the “Myung Tae-Kyun influence” to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Central District of Seoul. The investigation of the accusations related to President Yoon Suk-Yool and his wife is expected to begin seriously.

According to a Kyunghyang Shinmun report on February 24, the Dedicated Investigation Team of the Central District of the Seoul (headed by Deputy Director Lee Ji-Hyung) plans to travel to Changwon, province of South Gyeongsang, on the 27th of Broker Myung. According to the reports, the investigation will take place on the 27th and 28th. According to the reports, Myung, which is being held at the Changwon detention center, cannot travel to Seoul for a long time due to health reasons.

The prosecution transferred main cases, including President Yoon and the illegal participation of his wife in the nomination of in the partial elections, to the Office of Prosecutors of the Central District of Seoul on 17 among the cases related to Myung, which were investigated by the CHANGWON DISTRICT TAXS ‘office. Seven prosecutors, who directed the investigation team of the prosecutor of the Changwon district, were transferred to the Seoul Central Prosecutor’s Office. The remaining investigation team in the Changwon district prosecutor is in charge of maintaining the prosecuted cases and investigating the remaining cases based on the Changwon area.

Legal circles believe that prosecutors will use myung investigation as a springboard to launch a large-scale investigation into Yoon and his wife, Kim Keon-Hee. Yoon and Kim are accused of receiving more than 80 results from the Myung survey for free during the latest presidential elections, in exchange for influencing the nomination of former legislator of the Popular Party Kim Young-Sun in the partial election in 2022 . Research Institute at least four times. The investigation also includes accusations that Myung manipulated the results of the surveys during the primary of the presidential elections to make Yoon’s approval index higher than that of Hong Joon-Pyo.

Other powerful politicians of the ruling party, including the mayor of Daegu, Hong Joon-Pyo, and the mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-Hoon, have also been involved in the accusations against Myung. When Hong and Oh denied that they knew Myung personally, he immediately refuted it, pointing out more revelations.

Myung’s lawyer, Nam Sang-Kwon, appeared on the MBC radio the same day and said that Myung and Hong had met “three more times in addition to the meeting in June 2021” and had presented relevant evidence to prosecutors. The last time they met, which was on January 19, 2022, Myung was present at a meeting between President Yoon and Hong, he said. The lawyer said that OH met with Myung and former legislator Kim Young-Sun on January 20, 2021, before the elections to the Mayor’s Office of Seoul, and said: “If you help me, I will give you (Kim) the position of president of the president of the Seoul Housing and Urban Corporation (SH). However, Oh denied it.

Prosecutors are expected to analyze myung investigation and weigh when to summon the first lady Kim and others. The investigation into President Yoon is expected to take place after the decision of his political trial next month.

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