Lee Jae-myung: "Yoon, Stop Evading the Question... Must Explain Why Loan Corruption Case Is Excluded from Investigation"

[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Ju-yeon] Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party presidential candidate (Governor of Gyeonggi Province), targeted Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate and former Prosecutor General, saying, "As the lead prosecutor in the investigation of the Busan Savings Bank's non-performing loans, I repeatedly urge a reasonable explanation as to why this clear loan corruption case was excluded from the investigation."

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Lee said, "Busan Savings Bank made a risky non-performing loan of 110 billion won to buy up land, claiming that LH would privatize Daejang-dong, which was under public development, and monopolize the development profits. If the People Power Party had not interfered, Seongnam City would have recovered all development profits through public development, the developers would have been left homeless, and Busan Savings Bank would not have been able to properly recover the Daejang-dong loan," he argued.

He added, "Thanks to the People Power Party's help in fiercely blocking public development, the developers who barely took some of the development profits survived, and it was used to buy the house of Candidate Yoon's father."

Lee criticized, "I had some expectations since you resigned from your lifelong career as a prosecutor to run for president and said you would study hard, but as I suspected, it was the same. As time goes by, you only make statements that are hard to understand about who you learned from."

He continued, "Giving irrelevant answers is Representative Hong Joon-pyo's trademark, and it seems you even learned giving irrelevant answers from Representative Hong. Don't think you can escape with irrelevant answers like Representative Hong. If you deliberately avoided investigation despite allegations of corruption, that is a serious crime of dereliction of duty," he pointed out.

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