Police Reapply for Arrest Warrant of Yang Bu-nam, Democratic Party Legal Committee Chair, Over Investigation Cover-up Allegations
The police have re-applied for an arrest warrant for Yang Bu-nam, the Legal Committee Chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, who is suspected of receiving legal fees on the condition of suppressing an investigation.
On the 25th, the Anti-Corruption and Public Crime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced that they re-applied for an arrest warrant for Chairman Yang on the 21st on charges of violating the Attorney-at-Law Act.
Chairman Yang is suspected of receiving a large sum of legal fees in exchange for suppressing an investigation into the operation of an online gambling site in Daegu in November 2020, shortly after retiring from the prosecution. The police reportedly detected circumstances where 99 million won out of the total legal fees of 280 million won flowed into the corporate account of Chairman Yang's office. Chairman Yang's side claims that the case acceptance contract was made through proper procedures.
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The police applied for an arrest warrant for Chairman Yang on May 30, but the prosecution rejected it, stating that "clear evidence of the criminal charges and grounds for detention is necessary." On the 14th, the police sent lawyer A, who is charged with connecting the gambling site operation case to Chairman Yang (violation of the Attorney-at-Law Act), to prosecution without detention, and sent Kim, the office manager of lawyer A's office, to prosecution under detention.
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