'Arrest Warrant for Jeon Jun-gyeong, Former Deputy Director of the Democratic Research Institute, on Suspicion of Receiving Bribes Worth Hundreds of Millions (Update)'

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The prosecution has requested an arrest warrant for Jeon Jun-gyeong, former deputy director of the Democratic Research Institute, who is accused of receiving hundreds of millions of won in bribes from Baekhyeon-dong developers and others.

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

The Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 3 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Kim Yong-sik) announced on the 25th that they have requested an arrest warrant for former Deputy Director Jeon on charges of bribery and receiving bribes under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes.

According to the prosecution, former Deputy Director Jeon is suspected of receiving a total of 758.88 million won from six companies between July 2015 and December last year as a reward for mediating petitions to the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission and local government permits while serving as a non-standing member of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission and as the head of the Yongin City Policy Research Institute (charge of receiving bribes under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes).

Among this amount, approximately 120 million won is believed to have been transferred to former Deputy Director Jeon from Jeong Ba-ul, chairman of Asia Developer, the company implementing the Baekhyeon-dong development project. The prosecution suspects that Chairman Jeong provided former Deputy Director Jeon with money under the name of corporate salary from a corporation he actually owns, as well as a luxury car registered under the corporation’s name, in exchange for mediating petitions related to real estate development permits in the Sanggal District of Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.

Former Deputy Director Jeon is also accused of accepting a total of 26 million won in bribes from companies participating in the Singil Oncheon development project between January and July 2017, related to his duties in the Commission’s activities such as resolving grievances (charge of bribery).

The prosecution conducted searches on former Deputy Director Jeon’s residence, office, and related companies on the 4th, and summoned him for investigation as a suspect over two days from the 21st to the 22nd.

The prosecution plans to secure his custody to verify the details of the mediation of permit petitions and grievance handling at the Commission, and to specifically clarify whether there was a quid pro quo relationship in the process.

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