Gyu-min Lee gave 15 million won for a lecture on Kim Je-dong

(Seoul = News 1) Reporter Park Se-yeon = Democratic Party legislator Lee Gyu-min attends a general membership meeting held at the Yeouido National Assembly in Seoul on the morning of the 8th. 2020.6.8 / News one

Lee Gyu-min, a member of the Democratic Party, has been investigated by the prosecution on charges of violating the Donations and Gifts Law in connection with raising funds for the establishment of the Anseong Girl Prize in Gyeonggi-do.

The “Anseong Peace Girl Statue Construction Promotion Committee” (Anseong Promotion Committee), where Lee was in charge of the permanent representative, raised a donation of 68 million won without registering with Gyeonggi. do. The announcer Kim Je-dong paid for the lectures. ” In May, he filed a complaint with the Seoul Western District Prosecutor’s Office on charges of violating the Donations Law. According to Sa Junmo, the case was transferred to the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office on the 18th.

In May 2017, the Anseong Promotion Committee announced its plans to build a girl statue on Facebook, saying, “Establishing the girl statue is a project that costs more than 60 million won, and this cost is funded by the citizens “. The promotion committee raised a total of 68 million won through fundraising 71 and established the Anseong Girl of Peace Award in March 2018.

However, in this process, the government did not record donations for donations prescribed by the Donations Law. In accordance with the Grants Act, individuals and organizations wishing to recruit donations of 10 million won or more are required to submit a recruitment / use plan to the Minister of Public Administration and Security or the head of a metropolitan government to register as an organization of recruitment. Failure to register can result in a prison term of up to three years or a fine of up to 30 million won.

It was also controversial that the Anseong Promotion Committee spent a total of 15 million won on lectures for announcer Kim Je-dong, including 7 million won and 8 million won separately raised among the money raised for the construction of the venue. statue of the girl. Kim delivered a two-hour ‘Insong History Special Lecture’ at Hankyung University in October 2017.

Representative Lee Gyu-min’s Kim Je-dong Conference Poster Posted On His Twitter [사진 트위터]

Representative Lee said on his Facebook page at the time, “The Anseong Promotion Committee was not subject to the Donations and Gifts Law because it operated on membership dues, contributions, and butterfly badge sales rather than fundraising from according to the statutes “. Reports of its use for activities unrelated to the girl’s statue are also incorrect. In addition to the establishment of the statue of the girl, the statutes contain public opinion activities and educational and public relations activities ”.

However, Sa Junmo urged, “In light of the fact that Congressman Lee revealed on his Twitter that the funds raised through street fundraising alone amounted to 11 million won, the clarification is false.”

On the 14th, the Seoul Western District Prosecutor’s Office, along with Yoon Mi-hyang, were charged with violating the Donation Law, as was Lee’s. At the time, the Western District Attorney’s Office determined that Assemblyman Yoon had violated the Money and Donations Act by raising a total of 4.27 billion won through unregistered personal and group accounts when he was representing Chung Daehyup and Eui. -yeon Jeong.

Reporter Kim Kyung-hee [email protected]