Police Likely to Send Lee Jun-seok for Defamation Over Sexual Bribery Allegations

Former People Power Party leader Lee Jun-seok is attending the hearing for the injunction to suspend the effectiveness of the People Power Party's party rules at the Seoul Southern District Court in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, on the 28th. Photo by National Assembly Press Photographers Group

[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Gyumin] The police have reportedly decided to send former People Power Party leader Lee Jun-seok to prosecution on charges of false accusation after he sued the Garosero Research Institute (Gaseyeon) for allegedly fabricating sexual bribery allegations.

According to the police on the 13th, the Anti-Corruption and Public Crime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency concluded to send former leader Lee to prosecution on charges of false accusation.

Last December, when Gaseyeon revealed that Kim Seong-jin, CEO of i-Kist in 2013, had provided sexual bribery to Lee, he sued Gaseyeon representatives Kim Se-ui and lawyer Kang Yong-seok for defamation under the Information and Communications Network Act (defamation by false information).

In response, Kim’s legal representative, lawyer Kang Shin-up, filed a complaint against former leader Lee in August on charges of false accusation, stating that Lee had received sexual bribery but still sued Gaseyeon.

However, it is reported that the charge of instructing evidence destruction, related to ordering Kim Cheol-geun, then chief of staff to the party leader, to destroy evidence of sexual bribery, will not be forwarded for prosecution.

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