Prosecution Files Immediate Appeal Against Court's Decision to Cancel Seizure of Jeon Du-hwan's Main Residence and Garden

The former residence of ex-President Jeon Du-hwan located in Yeonhui-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul. Photo by Moon Ho-nam

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Seok-jin] The prosecution has filed an immediate appeal against the court's decision to cancel the seizure of the main house and garden of former President Jeon Du-hwan's residence in Yeonhui-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, excluding the annex.

According to the legal community on the 23rd, the Crime Proceeds Recovery Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Park Seung-hwan) submitted an immediate appeal to the Seoul High Court on the same day.

An immediate appeal is a procedure to appeal to a higher court against a court's decision.

Earlier, the Criminal Division 1 of the Seoul High Court (Presiding Judges Jeong Jun-young, Song Young-seung, Kang Sang-wook) partially accepted the objection to the execution of the trial filed by former President Jeon against the prosecution's confiscation on the 20th.

At that time, the court confirmed that the annex, registered under the name of the former president's third daughter-in-law, was purchased with slush funds created from bribes and upheld the public auction disposition. However, it decided to cancel the seizure of the main house registered under the name of the former president's wife, Lee Soon-ja, and the garden registered under the name of the secretary, citing a lack of evidence that these were confiscatable illegal properties.

With the prosecution's immediate appeal, the final decision on whether to cancel the seizure of the Yeonhui-dong residence will be made by the Supreme Court.

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