Prosecutors Conduct Search of Song Young-gil Camp Regional Situation Room Chief's Home Over 'Money Envelope Suspicion'

The prosecution investigating the Democratic Party of Korea's '2021 Party Convention Money Envelope Suspicion' conducted a search and seizure at the residence of the regional situation room chief of former representative Song Young-gil's primary campaign.

Prosecutors [Photo by Yonhap News]

According to the legal community on the 23rd, the Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 2 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Kim Young-cheol) sent prosecutors and investigators to secure related materials at the residence of Mr. Lee, who served as the Seoul regional situation room chief in former representative Song's primary campaign.

The prosecution believes that Kang Rae-gu, former standing auditor of Korea Water Resources Corporation, and Lee Jeong-geun, former deputy secretary-general of the Democratic Party, provided a total of about 20 million won in cash?50 million won each?to dozens of regional situation room chiefs around April 2021, ahead of the party convention, to encourage active election campaigning by the regional situation room chiefs.

Based on the analysis of the seized items, the prosecution plans to identify the regional situation room chiefs who received the money envelopes.

The prosecution has previously worked on identifying recipients of the money envelopes, including regional headquarters chiefs of the primary campaign and incumbent lawmakers. The day before, they summoned independent lawmaker Yoon Kwan-seok, who is suspected of involvement in distributing 60 million won to members of the National Assembly, and investigated him for 12 hours.

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