Court to Conduct Detention Hearing for 'Lee Jae-myung's Closest Aide' Jeong Jin-sang on the 18th

On the 15th, Jeong Jin-sang, the Political Coordination Office Chief of the Democratic Party representative office, who is accused of accepting bribes from the Daejang-dong group, appeared privately at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office entrance in Seocho-gu, Seoul, where reporters were waiting./Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Daehyun] Jeong Jinsang, 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, will face a detention decision on the 18th.

According to the court on the 16th, Jeong's pre-arrest detention hearing (warrant review) will be held at 2 p.m. on the 18th at the Seoul Central District Court, presided over by Judge Kim Seyong, who is in charge of warrants.

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

Jeong is accused of receiving a total of 140 million KRW in money and valuables under various pretexts of solicitation from the so-called 'Daejang-dong group,' including Yoo Dong-gyu, former head of planning at Seongnam Urban Development Corporation, while working as Policy Secretary of Seongnam City and Policy Director of Gyeonggi Province 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 reward for providing preferential treatment in the Daejang-dong project (charge of bribery after improper conduct), and violating the Anti-Corruption Act by leaking confidential internal information to private contractors in the Wirye New Town development project, enabling them to gain huge profits.

Additionally, he is accused of instructing former head Yoo to throw his mobile phone out the window to destroy evidence when the prosecution's search and seizure was imminent on September 29 last year (charge of evidence destruction inducement).

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

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