Request for a seizure order and search for the suspicion of Suk-yeol Yoon’s wife … Dismissal in court

The prosecution, which is investigating the sponsorship allegations against Kim Gun-hee, wife of Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol, has requested a seizure and search warrant, but the court is reported to have dismissed it.

According to law enforcement officials on the 10th, the Second Anti-Corruption Investigation Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office (Chief Prosecutor Jeong Yong-Hwan) requested a seizure and content search warrant from Covana, etc., led by Mr. Kim, in connection with the recent sponsorship money indictment, but the court dismissed all of them.

The court is known to have declared that “there is the possibility of voluntary submission of key evidence, and the violation of legal interests in the execution of the order is serious.” It is interpreted in the sense that the need for a forced investigation is not recognized, since the prosecution can carry out an investigation in the form of voluntary presentation.

However, a prosecution official declined to say: “We cannot confirm the specific progress of the investigation.” Previously, a suspicion was raised that Mr. Kim received sponsorship money related to the display of companies in the line of investigation of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office while operating Covana Contents. The companies are alleged to have provided sponsorship money for the convenience of the investigation and trial at an event organized by Covana Contents in June last year. The event took place when Yoon was nominated as attorney general, and it is argued that Kim received preferential treatment, as the number of endorsements increased from 4 to 16 after President Yoon’s nomination. A civic group investigated the suspicion in late September. He filed a complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office for doing so, and the Central District Prosecutor’s Office assigned the case to the second anti-corruption investigation division on the 4th, after considering it for approximately a month and a half.

However, on the 22nd of last month it was reaffirmed to the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office that it was unfounded in relation to the suspicion. General Yoon said, “The last thing I did last year is that I have been preparing for it. It was also reduced, “he said.” My wife does not go anywhere and tells her that her husband is a prosecutor. It doesn’t matter who knows, even if they talk about it first, they don’t get it right. “