Former Prosecutor General Yoon Gap-geun Arrested Over 'Lime Lobby Suspicion'... "Risk of Flight and Evidence Tampering"
![Yoon Gap-geun, former Daegu High Prosecutor General (currently Chairman of the People Power Party Chungbuk Provincial Committee), who was named as a lobbying target by Kim Bong-hyun, former chairman of Star Mobility and a key figure in the Lime Asset Management scandal, is attending a warrant hearing at the Seoul Southern District Court in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the 10th. <br>[Image source=Yonhap News]](http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/img_view.htm?img=2020121010460357969_1607564763.jpg)
Yoon Gap-geun, former Daegu High Prosecutor General (currently Chairman of the People Power Party Chungbuk Provincial Committee), who was named as a lobbying target by Kim Bong-hyun, former chairman of Star Mobility and a key figure in the Lime Asset Management scandal, is attending a warrant hearing at the Seoul Southern District Court in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the 10th.
[Image source=Yonhap News]
[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jeong] Yoon Gap-geun, former Daegu High Prosecutor (currently Chairman of the People Power Party Chungbuk Provincial Party Committee), who was named as a lobbying target by former Star Mobility Chairman Kim Bong-hyun, has been detained by the prosecution.
According to the legal community on the 11th, Seong Bo-gi, the warrant judge at the Seoul Southern District Court, held a pre-arrest detention hearing (warrant substantive examination) for former Prosecutor General Yoon the day before and issued the warrant, citing "concerns of flight and evidence destruction."
Former Prosecutor General Yoon is accused of receiving over 200 million won in lobbying funds from Lime. This money was under the pretext of lobbying Woori Bank, the Lime fund distributor, after Woori Bank suspended fund sales in April last year.
In an in-prison statement released last October, former Chairman Kim Bong-hyun mentioned Yoon as the "prominent opposition politician, a former prosecutor general, who received tens of millions of won for Lime fund solicitation."
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Following Kim’s revelations, the prosecution launched a full-scale investigation by raiding Woori Financial Group and Yoon’s office. Yoon claimed upon attending the warrant hearing the day before, "I signed a legitimate advisory contract and received legal advisory fees, and only handled legal affairs as a lawyer," adding, "I do not know former Chairman Kim."
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