Special Committee on Fabricated Indictment Files Complaints Against 31, Including Park Sangyong, for Refusing Oath

Kim Sung-tae, Bang Yong-chul, Kim Man-bae and Others Accused of Perjury and Non-Attendance During Parliamentary Probe

The National Assembly's Special Committee on the National Investigation into Allegations of Manipulated Indictments by Political Prosecutors under the Yoon Suk-yeol Administration filed complaints on May 8 against 31 individuals, including Prosecutor Park Sangyong and former Ssangbangwool Chairman Kim Sung-tae, on charges such as refusing to take the oath for the national investigation, perjury, and nonattendance.

Democratic Party lawmaker Geontae Lee (left) and Progressive Party lawmaker Sol Son of the Special Committee on the National Investigation into Allegations of Manipulated Indictments under the Yoon Suk-yeol Administration are speaking on the 8th in front of the Government Gwacheon Complex Information Center in Gyeonggi Province before submitting a complaint with false testimony charges against witnesses of the National Investigation to the High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Unit (HOCI). Photo by Yonhap News.

Democratic Party and Progressive Party lawmakers on the special committee submitted complaints against the 31 individuals to the High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Unit (HOCI) and the National Office of Investigation (NOI) for violating the Act on Testimony and Appraisal, among other charges.

The special committee had previously approved the motion to file these complaints at a plenary meeting led by the Democratic Party on April 30.

Among those named, Prosecutor Park, who investigated the Ssangbangwool remittance to North Korea case, was accused of refusing to take the oath without just cause at hearings held on April 3 and 14.

Former Chairman Kim and former Ssangbangwool Vice Chairman Bang Yongcheol were charged with perjury.

In connection with the Daejang-dong development corruption allegations, prosecutors Kang Baeksin, Kim Kyungwan, Eom Heejun, Jeong Ilkwon, and attorney Song Kyungho (former Chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office) were charged with perjury, while Kim Manbae, Jeong Younghak, and Jeong Minyong were accused of failing to appear at the hearings and refusing to comply with summons orders.

Regarding the West Sea shooting incident, former First Deputy Director of the National Security Office Kim Tae-hyo, former Director of the National Intelligence Service Kim Kyu-hyun, and former Presidential Office Discipline Secretary Lee Siwon were charged.

The special committee also filed complaints against Audit and Inspection Board inspector Lee Sanghoon in relation to the statistics fabrication case, and Prosecutor Kang Ilmin in connection with the defamation case involving former President Yoon Suk-yeol.

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