Former Optimus CEO Lee Hyuk-jin: "The Worst Financial Fraud... I Will Testify If the Culprit Is Caught"
[Asia Economy Reporter Baek Kyunghwan] Lee Hyukjin, former CEO of Optimus Asset Management, who is currently staying in the United States, stated that he will testify in court once the investigation is concluded.
On the 19th, Lee appeared on CBS Radio's 'Kim Hyunjung's News Show' and said, "Once many criminals are caught and all the deviants are revealed, all suspicions against me will be cleared," adding, "When that time comes, I will testify."
In response to the question, "Won't you return to Korea to assist the prosecution's investigation?" he replied, "I am not involved at all and am revealing the whole truth," and said, "I cannot accept why I should be implicated in a case where the other criminals have not even been caught."
Regarding this case, he claimed, "It is not connected to the administration, but the worst financial fraud case that occurred when former officials and legal technicians who know the law well met with swindlers."
On the suspicion of fleeing, he said, "I have a family in the United States, so I just returned home; I did not flee." When asked if he accompanied President Moon Jaein as part of the delegation during the state visit to Vietnam in March 2018, he explained, "I heard that Financial Services Commission Chairman Choi Jongkoo and Minister of Science and ICT Yoo Youngmin were accompanying, so I went there to make some complaints."
Regarding the suspicion that the Ministry of Justice intentionally allowed him to go abroad by imposing a travel ban the day after he left for Vietnam, he denied, saying, "I did not know the dates and did not hear such facts from anyone."
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Meanwhile, Lee pointed to Kim Jaehyun, CEO of Optimus, Jeong Youngje, former CEO of Optimus Alternative Investment, and Yang Ho, former chairman of Nara Bank and advisor, as the masterminds behind the fund fraud case, naming former Deputy Prime Minister Lee Heonjae as the person behind them. However, regarding Lee Jina, former Blue House administrator known to be a major shareholder of Optimus, he said, "I think it was a personal deviation."
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