Six People Including Kang Jin-gu and Baek Eun-jong Referred Over Allegations Against First Lady Kim Geon-hee's Julie

Six individuals, including Kang Jin-gu (56), the representative of the YouTube media outlet Citizen Press The Tamza (formerly Open Sympathy TV), who raised the 'Julie allegations' related to First Lady Kim Keon-hee, wife of President Yoon Suk-yeol, have been referred to the prosecution.

On the 22nd, the Seocho Police Station in Seoul announced that on the 10th, they had sent six people, including Kang and former representative Jeong Cheon-su, four other Open Sympathy TV affiliates at the time, Baek Eun-jong (71), the representative of the YouTube channel 'Voice of Seoul,' and businessman Jeong Dae-taek (74), to the prosecution without detention on charges of defamation under the Information and Communications Network Act.

The Open Sympathy TV affiliates are accused of raising allegations during the presidential election period that First Lady Kim had worked at a past entertainment bar. They interviewed a person who worked at the entertainment bar and the mother of a certain prosecutor who was rumored to be cohabiting.

Representative Baek also claimed the cohabitation rumor of the First Lady through his YouTube channel. Mr. Jeong raised the Julie allegations through YouTube and other platforms.

The People Power Party's Legal Support Group and the legal team of then-presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol's campaign filed more than ten complaints and accusations related to the Julie allegations. Among these, the police first sent six cases to the prosecution in September last year, which involved violations of the Public Official Election Act with statutes of limitations approaching. The cases reported for defamation under the Information and Communications Network Act were referred to the prosecution this time.

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