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As it was confirmed that the prosecution investigating the Optimus incident had already obtained documents and transcripts of alleged lobbyists in political relations at the beginning of the investigation four months ago, suspicion of an alleged ‘overwhelming investigation’ is increasing.
As suspicion grew, prosecutors formed a large-scale investigation team of 18 prosecutors, pulling the reins of the Burjaburya investigation.
We will connect journalists to learn more. Reporter Park Seo-kyung!
What is the evidence that the prosecution obtained at the beginning of the investigation?
[기자]Director Yoon Seok-ho, who was indicted with Optimus CEO Kim Jae-hyun, had a recorded file with CEO Kim regarding suspected lobbying for political issues.
In this file, President Kim said that if he was sentenced to prison through a powerful Blue House administrator, he might even be able to pardon him.
The prosecution obtained all of these recordings during the seizure and search of Director Yoon in June, at the beginning of the investigation.
In addition, the prosecution also had data regarding senior government officials, construction companies, presidents of financial groups and press executives, etc., to help resolve the Optimus crisis.
Three members of the Democratic Party and five members of the National Assembly were also mentioned in the data, and there was content that they could get involved from various angles and lead to power-type corruption.
In June, it was revealed that Director Yoon’s statement that CEO Kim had been showing his backstage in political, financial, and legal circles was also obtained in June.
[앵커]It is in line with the content of the ‘Funding Recovery Document’, which raised the suspicion of lobbying in favor of political relations, but has the prosecution not examined those recorded documents or files in detail?
[기자]The reason the Optimus Fund fraud investigation was extended due to suspected lobbying in relationships was the ‘Recovery Due Document Document’.
The document contained the content that the government and ruling party officials who assisted in the dispute resolution process with former CEO Lee Hyeok-jin participated in part as “project beneficiaries”, who were directly or indirectly related .
The second largest shareholder, Lee Dong-yeol and Yoo Hyun-kwon, General Counsel of Skin & Skin, who were prosecuted along with Director Yoon, reportedly also made specific statements regarding the allegations.
It appears to be in the same context as the transcripts and statements that were already secured, but the prosecution at the time did not focus on investigating the suspected relationship lobbying.
However, as the related reports continued and emerged as a social issue, the investigation began to strengthen.
Recently, after the document was reported, the investigation team approached the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office with the document and explained it directly.
It was reported that the report was not condemned as false, but this part needs to be further confirmed and this part is suspect.
[앵커]Did key officials also claim that there were multiple lobby windows in relation to the alleged lobby?
[기자]Ninety percent of the Optimus funds were sold by NH Investment & Securities, and there has been criticism about how large securities companies sold hundreds of billions of won in bad funds.
The product proposal that CEO Kim sent to NH Investment & Securities also contained only 7 pages, and it only took two days to establish the actual fund after explanation.
Director Yoon Seok-ho backed up this situation by stating that CEO Kim had done all the drugs to NH Investment & Securities CEO Jeong Young-chae, and that the actual due diligence was also roughly carried out. .
Young-je Chung, former CEO of Optimus Alternative Investment, is mentioned as the person who built the bridge between CEO Kim and CEO Chung of NH Investment & Securities.
In addition to former CEO Jung Young-je, there were reportedly three lobbyists working to lobby political and related personnel.
Three people were named, including Shin Mo, Ki Mo, and Kim Mo, who were representatives of the entertainment agency.
[앵커]Optimus officials also contacted the former director of the Financial Supervision Service.
Has the prosecution also recently conducted a forced investigation?
[기자]Representative Kim Jae-hyun also stated that in a previous court investigation, he had handed over tens of millions of won to Yoon Mo, a former director of the Financial Supervision Service.
Reporters met with Yoon, who was on trial for another money delivery case, and asked him about the suspicion, but couldn’t hear the answer.
[윤 모 씨 / 前 금융감독원 국장 : (김재현 대표 누구한테 소개받으셨어요?) …. (김재현 대표한테 돈 받으신 적 있어요?) ….]CEO Kim said he had been introduced to finance industry officials such as an executive at Hana Bank, a fund asset management manager.
The prosecution seized Yoon’s house and the same day he was called as a suspect to investigate.
As a result of Mr. Yoon’s large-scale investigation, the investigation of the subpoena by financial institutions such as Hana Bank is expected to continue sooner or later.
[앵커]Still, it seems they are rushing the investigation late.
Has the research team also increased a lot?
[기자]As the research was stimulated, the size of the research team grew.
The Ministry of Justice approved a request from the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office to send five additional prosecutors to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office.
Looking at the list, there is Prosecutor Nam Jae-Hyun, Seoul Northern District Prosecutor’s Office, who belongs to the FSS investigation bureau and is a certified public accountant.
Prosecutors with special investigative experience were also appointed, such as Gukjeong Nongdan and Judicial Nongdan, Samsung Biologics accounting fraud, and former President Lee Myung-bak’s investigation into Darth’s real estate investigation.
Here, four additional prosecutors were added within the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office.
In addition to the 9 prosecutors from the existing investigation team, 5 external and 4 internal prosecutors were added, the total number of prosecutors was 18, which is comparable to that of the special investigation team.
The Justice Ministry said it would also consider sending additional staff in consideration of the future progress of the investigation and the workload in the front-line prosecutor’s office.
There is a sense of being late, but with the launch of a large-scale investigation team, it remains to be seen how deeply the suspicion of a sensitive lobbying policy can be uncovered.
I am YTN Park Seo-kyung from the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office.
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