Prosecutors Request Arrest Warrant for Jeong Jin-sang, 'Lee Jae-myung's Closest Aide'

Jeong Jin-sang, the Political Coordination Officer of the Democratic Party's Office of the Representative, who is accused of accepting bribes from the Daejang-dong group, appeared privately before the prosecution on the 15th. The prosecution flag was hung in front of the Central District Prosecutors' Office in Seocho-dong, Seoul, that morning.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] On the 16th, the prosecution filed an arrest warrant for Jeong Jin-sang, the chief political coordinator of the party leader's office and a close aide to Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea.

The Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 1 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Eom Hee-jun) filed a pre-arrest warrant on the 16th against Jeong on charges including bribery.

Jeong is accused of receiving a total of 140 million KRW in money and valuables under various pretexts from Yoo Dong-gyu, former head of planning at Seongnam Urban Development Corporation, and others known as the 'Daejang-dong gang' while serving as Seongnam City Policy Secretary and Gyeonggi Province Policy Director from 2013 to 2020. He is also charged with promising to share 24.5% (after tax 42.8 billion KRW) of common stock with Kim Man-bae as a bribe for providing preferential treatment in the Daejang-dong project (abuse of power for bribery), and with leaking confidential internal information to private contractors in the Wirye New Town development project, enabling them to gain huge profits (violation of the Anti-Corruption Act).

He is also accused of instructing former head Yoo to throw his mobile phone out the window on September 29 last year, when a prosecution raid was imminent (obstruction of evidence).

The prosecution summoned Jeong the day before and interrogated him for 14 hours.

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