Registration of 7 Lawyers Representing Lee Jae-myung, Representative Accused of Ssangbangwool's North Korea Remittance Charges

The legal team to handle the trial of Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, on charges of third-party bribery related to Ssangbangwool's remittance to North Korea has been decided.

According to the legal and political circles on the 13th, seven lawyers, including Park Gyun-taek from the law firm Gwangsan and a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, have been registered as defense attorneys for Lee's case, who was indicted without detention yesterday at the Suwon District Court on charges including bribery under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes, violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, and violation of the Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Act.

Along with Representative Park, lawyers Lee Seung-yeop, Kim Jong-geun, Lee Tae-hyung, Kim Hee-soo, lawyer Cho Sang-ho from the law firm Parang, and lawyer Jeon Seok-jin from the law firm Sankyung were also included. Lawyer Park Gyun-taek and lawyer Lee Tae-hyung previously resigned from Lee's trial at the Seoul Central District Court, where they were handling cases related to perjury inducement and the Daejang-dong, Baekhyeon-dong, and Seongnam FC incidents.

Lee Jae-myung speaking
(Seoul=Yonhap News) Photo by Shin Jun-hee = On June 11, 2024, Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is speaking at a party members' meeting held at the National Assembly.
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However, it is known that Representative Park Gyun-taek, who is a member of the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee, will submit a resignation due to difficulties in concurrently holding the position of lawyer.

Earlier, Lee is accused of conspiring with Lee Hwa-young, former Deputy Governor for Peace of Gyeonggi Province, to have Kim Seong-tae, former chairman of the Ssangbangwool Group, make a payment to North Korea of 5 million dollars for the 'Hwanghae Province Smart Farm Support' project, which Gyeonggi Province had promised to pay to North Korea, from January to April 2019.

He is also accused of having Kim, the former chairman, pay 3 million dollars to North Korea from July 2019 to January 2020 under the pretext of protocol expenses for the governor's visit to North Korea, as requested by the North Korean side.

With this indictment, Lee will face a total of four trials (three at the Seoul Central District Court and one at the Suwon District Court). Previously, Lee Hwa-young, former Deputy Governor for Peace of Gyeonggi Province, who was indicted together on third-party bribery charges, was sentenced to 9 years and 6 months in prison in the first trial for violating the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act and bribery under the Special Act related to the North Korea remittance case.

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