‘Suspicious Lime Fund Application’ Yun Gap-geun Denies First Trial Charges “I am not asking you to resell the fund”

Check-in 2021.01.27 15:07

Former Daegu Attorney General Gap-geun Yoon (currently Chairman of the Chungbuk Provincial Party), who was convicted of accepting money and goods in exchange for requesting Woori Bank to resell the Lime Asset Management (Lime) fund, received only one normal legal advice fee at first trial Fully denied charges.

The 13th Division of the Seoul Southern District Law Penal Settlement (Presiding Judge Shin Hyeok-jae) held the first trial of former Senior Prosecutor Yoon, accused of violating the law on the severe punishment of specific economic crimes at 2 p.m. on the 27th.

When Woori Bank stopped selling lime funds in 2019, former prosecutor Yoon said, “ Please ask Woori Bank to resell lime funds ” from Lee Jong-pil, former vice president of lime funds, and received a gift worth 220 million. won. He is accused of receiving.

Former prosecutor Yoon’s attorney denied all the charges. The lawyer said: “As a lawyer, the defendant served as legal advisor to the Metropolitan (invested by Lime). I heard a complaint that Woori Bank violated his promise to sell the Lime Fund, but never asked Woori Bank to resell the fund . “.

He continued: “The commission was deposited into the law firm’s account, and a tax invoice was even issued. The prosecution’s allegation that the mediation payment was received transparently through the corporate account, but this did not square with common sense, “he argued repeatedly. .

The lawyer also said: “The prosecution’s accusation is based on the statement of former Lime Vice President Lee Jong-pil, who cannot recognize credibility,” and said: “There was no investigation into Metropolitan President Kim Mo, the party to notice. contract. “

Earlier, former Star Mobility president Kim Bong-hyun, a key figure in the Lime crisis, said in a court order last year that “in the case of applying for the Lime Fund, we provided class members to influential politicians of the opposition and attorneys for the prosecution, and lobbied for the director of Woori Bank and the vice president. The people who were investigated for requesting the resale of lime from former prosecutor Yoon Yoon were known as former Lime Vice President Lee Jong-pil and president by Metropolitan Kim Mo.

Yun’s next trial will be held on March 4. For today’s trial, former Vice President Lee is expected to appear as a witness.