Prosecutors Conduct Search of Jeonguiyeon Office Over 'Alleged Accounting Irregularities' (Comprehensive)

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] On the 20th, the prosecution conducted a search and seizure of the office of Justice and Memory Solidarity (Jeonguiyeon), where Yoon Mi-hyang, the elected member of the Democratic Party of Korea, served as the representative.

The Criminal Division 4 of the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Choi Ji-seok) announced that they were executing a search warrant on the Jeonguiyeon office located in Seongsan-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul.

Earlier, civic groups such as the Action Alliance for Establishing the Rule of Law (Beopse-ryeon), the Judicial Examination Preparation Group, and Active Free Citizens reported Jeonguiyeon and elected member Yoon Mi-hyang to the prosecution for allegations of embezzlement of donations and the suspicious high-price purchase of the 'Anseong Shelter' in Gyeonggi Province.

The cases accusing Yoon of not using the donations received by Justice and Memory Solidarity for the victims, the comfort women grandmothers, were assigned on the 14th to the Fair Trade and Economic Crime Division of the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office. The case alleging that the shelter for the comfort women grandmothers was purchased at a high price and then sold at a low price was also assigned to the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office.

The prosecution decided to investigate these cases directly without transferring them to the police for investigation supervision. It is known that the prosecution plans to closely examine the use of Jeonguiyeon's donations and the allegations regarding the high-price purchase of the shelter for the comfort women grandmothers.

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