Yoo Seung-min Camp "Choi Yoon-gil, Former Seongnam City Council Chairman, Applied for Unsold Apartments in Daejang-dong"

[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Ju-yeon] On the 8th, the camp of Yoo Seung-min, a presidential candidate from the People Power Party and former lawmaker, announced that they received a tip that Choi Yoon-gil, former chairman of the Seongnam City Council and a close associate of Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung, won the subscription for unsold apartments in Daejang-dong.

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On the same day, Lee Ki-in, spokesperson for the camp, stated in an urgent commentary, "According to tips from residents of Sunae-dong, Bundang, Seongnam, where former Chairman Choi resides, he has been boasting since early this spring that he 'bought an apartment in Daejang-dong'."

He added that the informant "directly heard that former Chairman Choi sold his house in Sunae-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, moved to a rented place in the adjacent building within the same complex, and put the Daejang-dong apartment up for rent."

Spokesperson Lee pointed out, "If this is true, the third person among Governor Lee Jae-myung’s close associates to have received an apartment in Daejang-dong would be Jeong Jin-sang, general deputy director of the camp, and Jang Hyeong-cheol, deputy director of management at the Gyeonggi Research Institute." He continued, "It raises suspicion that this subscription was a quid pro quo for establishing the Seongnam Urban Development Corporation."

He emphasized, "The suspicious subscriptions for Daejang-dong apartments by close associates must be thoroughly investigated promptly."

Former Chairman Choi was the figure who led the city council when the ordinance to establish the Seongnam Urban Development Corporation was passed. Recently, lobbying allegations against him surfaced after it was revealed that a recording by accountant Jeong Young-hak, who designed the structure of the Daejang-dong development project, included content stating that "3 billion won was delivered to the chairman of Seongnam City."

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