Won Hee-ryong Files Complaint Against Lee Jae-myung for Alleged Road Change Near Yoon Family Land

"'The lie that I didn't know Kim Mungi'
Lee Jae-myung also says, 'Won Hee-ryong's responsibility revealed'"

On April 10, former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Won Hee-ryong, the People Power Party candidate for Incheon Gyeyang-eul in the general election, filed a complaint with the prosecution, accusing his local rival Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party, of spreading false information.

The allegation pointed out by former Minister Won on the 6th is that Lee's claim that the Yangpyeong Expressway route was changed near land owned by President Yoon Seok-youl's family during Won's tenure constitutes the dissemination of false information under the Public Official Election Act.

In a post on Facebook that day, former Minister Won said, "It doesn't matter whether I go to Seocho-dong once or twice for spreading false information, but the claim that I 'completely changed' something that happened before I took office as Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, I hope you won't later say you 'don't remember'."

He added, "I'm saying this because I remember the lie about 'not knowing Kim Moon-gi'." This pointed to the part where Lee claimed he did not know the late Kim Moon-gi, former Head of Development Division 1 at Seongnam Urban Development Corporation, who was involved in the Daejang-dong development project.

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Earlier, at the Democratic Party's Supreme Council meeting that day, Lee claimed, "Minister Won Hee-ryong suddenly changed the Yangpyeong Expressway route near the President's family's land. He pretends to be uninvolved, but isn't it now revealed that he is responsible?"

However, former Minister Won's position is that the decision to change the Seoul-Yangpyeong Expressway route was made before he took office.

Jeong Woo-taek, a People Power Party candidate for Cheongju Sangdang in Chungbuk, also announced that he would take legal action, accusing Lee of spreading false information.

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