Prosecution Indicts and Detains Lee Jae-myung Presidential Campaign Official for Perjury Coaching in Kim Yong Trial

Former Vice President Kim Yong of the Democratic Research Institute's trial saw individuals from Lee Jae-myung's presidential campaign team of the Democratic Party of Korea indicted on charges including coercion of perjury.

Seoul Seocho-gu Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office. / Photo by Jinhyung Kang aymsdream@

The Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 1 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Kang Baek-shin) on the 1st indicted Park (45) and Seo (44), former situation room chiefs of Lee's presidential campaign, on charges including perjury instruction. Lee Mo, former head of the Gyeonggi-do Market Promotion Agency (Gyeongsangwon), who committed perjury during the trial, was indicted without detention on charges of perjury, evidence forgery, and use of forged evidence.

Park and others are accused of asking Lee last April to appear as a witness in the trial concerning former Vice President Kim's alleged violations of the Political Funds Act and to testify with a "false alibi."

Lee testified at the trial that around May 3, 2021, he had a business consultation at the Gyeongsangwon office with former Vice President Kim and Shin, head of the Gyeonggi Energy Center. However, the prosecution confirmed that during the period Lee claimed to have had business consultations with Kim, Kim received 10 million won of illegal funds from Nam Wook, a private contractor involved in the Daejang-dong development, at the office of Youwon Holdings in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do.

The prosecution judged that Park and others fabricated the false alibi. They reported that Park and Lee colluded with Kim's defense counsel to manipulate photos from a mobile phone calendar application and submitted them to the court, applying charges of use of forged evidence. Lee, who directly manipulated the mobile phone calendar photos, was also charged with evidence forgery.

Lee is known to have admitted key facts such as perjury and data manipulation during the prosecution's investigation. On the other hand, Park and Seo acknowledged that the alibi was false but denied the charges, stating that they "created a hypothetical timeline based on the stories of Lee and Shin" and did not conspire to systematically instruct perjury.

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