[사회]Third indictment of Kang-wook Choi … former Channel A reporter charged with defamation

[앵커]

Open Democratic Party representative Choi Kang-wook is back in court for spreading false information against former reporter Dong-jae Lee, who is part of the attempts to coerce Channel A.

So far, all three prosecutions have been conducted, but today the court’s first judgment is made on the accusation of drafting a false internship confirmation form for the son of former Justice Minister Cho Kook.

Reporter Park Seo-kyung reports.

[기자]

This is an article posted by the CEO of the Open Democratic Party, Choi Kang-wook, on his SNS in April last year.

It is written that this is the gist of a comment from former Channel A reporter Lee Chul-jae, who was suspected of having been forced to try, to former VIK representative Lee Chul.

Choi argued that former reporter Lee told the former representative, “It’s okay if it’s not true, so tell him that you gave Si-min Yoo money to live.”

He also wrote that he said: ‘We have prepared the person to sue, and that we will rob Ryu Si-min’s home and family and capture and search the workforce.

At the same time, they stipulated that the content of these transcripts was planned for the general election of the Prosecutor’s Office and the media, and as a coup d’état.

However, civic groups charged Choi to the prosecution, alleging that there was no such content in the public transcript.

[이종배 / 법치주의 바로 세우기 행동연대 대표 (지난해 4월) : 선거를 앞두고 자신들의 세력에 비판적인 언론에 재갈을 물리고 현 정부를 수사하는 검찰에 압박을 가하고 선거에 영향을 끼치려 한 것이 아니냐….]

Nine months after the accusation, the prosecution saw that it was a defamation for false facts and delivered him to trial in a disabled state.

Hwang Hee-seok, former head of the Human Rights Office of the Ministry of Justice, and Ji-mo, a reporter for the alleged prosecution and prosecution, who were accused of obstructing Channel A’s business along with CEO Choi, were not processed.

CEO Choi also criticized the indictment for retaliating against those who tried to protect and reveal the crimes, while thinking that it was a task for those who would lead the prosecution reform and media reform after the indictment.

Representative Choi is put on trial for falsely writing his son’s internship certificate for former Justice Minister Cho Kook, and now faces a first trial today (28).

On the other hand, he is also being prosecuted and tried for falsely proclaiming that the charges related to the confirmation of the internship during the last general election were not true.

With the addition of the defamation charge, Choi Kang-wook has been tried in three cases, and the first court ruling, due out today (28), is drawing attention to which hand to raise.

This is YTN Park Seo-kyung.

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