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Prosecutors investigating the prosecution charges in the Lime Asset Management case are focusing on obtaining evidence by forensically detecting the mobile phones of former prosecutor A, former prosecutors and former investigators suspected of accepting money and property. The prosecution was also the first to conduct an investigation of former Star Mobility president Kim Bong-hyun, which is the beginning of the investigation. The prosecution does not rely solely on the statements of former President Kim, but plans to specify when the hospitality took place and who attended by obtaining objective evidence.
According to law enforcement officials on the 25th, the investigation team in charge of entertainment and reception from the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office (team leader Kim Rak-Hyun, head of the 6th division) sent a prosecutor and an investigator to the Seoul South Detention Center to conduct the first investigation against Kim. In the first and second prison letters and in the Ministry of Justice’s inspection investigation, former President Kim claimed that in July last year he had served 10 million won worth of alcoholic beverages to Attorney A and three acting prosecutors in a room. Kim claimed that they were introduced as prosecutors who would join Lime’s investigation team and, in fact, one of them had joined the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office.
In the third prison letter released through the media on the same day, former President Kim argued that “there is not a single passport politician involved in the Lime incident” and that the allegations of misconduct by the passport officials were exaggerated by the media. It was also emphasized that the prosecution had carried out an investigation for dust accumulation. This is contrary to a court aide’s statement that Kim voluntarily tried to inform the media about allegations of misconduct by passport staff in April while former President Kim was on the run. The prosecution is striving to obtain evidence by conducting forensic work on the cell phone of former investigator Mr. A and former investigator B, who confiscated and sought the authenticity of former President Kim’s statement.
The legal community believes that in order to prove the alleged bribery, the time of the entertainment, the participants and the amount of the payment must be specified. Former President Kim claimed the hospitality took place in July last year, but A attorneys and designated prosecutors were denied, saying it was “unfounded.” In the end, the prosecution is expected to reveal the truth through courtroom ledgers, prosecutors’ access records to the prosecutor’s office, and vehicle GPS records. In the investigation of former Blue House administrator Kim Mo, who was previously arrested, it is known that the prosecution specified the venue for the reception at the F Room located in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
The identification of the participants is also the core of the investigation. In an investigation by the Ministry of Justice, former President Kim claims that former Administrator Kim and former Vice President Lee Jong-pil were in a bar, and an investigation is expected to take place. The prosecution must also identify the cost of entertainment and determine the work-related consideration. A prosecutor, who later said he joined the investigation team, worked as an investigator at the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office in July last year and joined the investigation team in February. If bribery is not established, there is a possibility that the Prohibition of Solicitation Act (Kim Young-ran Act) will apply. For the Kim Young-ran Act to be recognized, the cost of an entertainment must exceed 1 million won.
It is known that the Prosecutor’s Office plans to soon open a public deliberation committee on criminal cases to publicize part of the investigation to the media, since it is a case where public suspicions are concentrated.
Reporter Seung-eun Koo [email protected]
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