Investigation of Park Eun-jung's Husband's Multi-Level Marketing Fraud 'High-Fee Acceptance' Case Underway at Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office

The prosecution is investigating a case in which lawyer Lee Jong-geun, the spouse of Park Eun-jung, the number one proportional representative candidate of the Joguk Innovation Party, was accused of receiving a large sum of legal fees for handling a multi-level marketing fraud case.

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

According to the legal community on the 5th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office has transferred the case, in which the People Power Party filed a complaint against lawyer Lee, to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office. The case was assigned to the Crime Proceeds Recovery Division (Chief Prosecutor Lee Hee-chan).

The People Power Party's 'Lee-Jo (Lee Jae-myung and Joguk) Judgment Special Committee' filed a complaint with the Supreme Prosecutors' Office on the 2nd of this month against lawyer Lee for violating the Act on the Regulation and Punishment of Criminal Proceeds Concealment. The committee claimed that lawyer Lee received a record-high legal fee of 2.2 billion won for handling the multi-level marketing fraud case.

Candidate Park recently registered as a candidate for the general election, declaring a total couple's assets of 4.982 billion won. This amount increased by about 4.1 billion won from 875 million won reported in May last year, shortly after lawyer Lee retired from the prosecution.

After retirement, lawyer Lee acted as legal counsel for the CEO of Huestem Korea, who is accused of fraud involving over 1 trillion won, and for Ado International, which is accused of a quasi-deposit scheme involving about 400 billion won. It is also known that lawyer Lee defended one of the suspects in the 'V Global Coin fraud case,' which he had received investigation reports on and directed while serving as Chief of the Criminal Division at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, from the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office.

Lawyer Lee has served as Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office, Chief of the Criminal Division at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, and First Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office. During his time as a prosecutor, he specialized in investigating illegal multi-level marketing and was certified as a Black Belt (Level 1) professional prosecutor in the fields of multi-level marketing and quasi-deposit schemes.

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