The independent counsel team led by Kim Gun-hee (special prosecutor Min Min Min-ki) raided about 10 places including Yoon Sang-hyun's home and the National Assembly's office on Tuesday. The homes of former People's Power lawmaker Kim Young-sun and former senior prosecutor Kim Sang-min were also included in the search and seizure site. This is a sign that the independent counsel team has begun a full-fledged investigation into the alleged involvement of former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife in the nomination process.
Special Prosecutor Oh Jung-hee said at a regular briefing on the day, "As many suspicions have been raised over the nomination transaction and unfair election intervention for a long time, we decided that it was necessary to quickly find out the truth of the case." Special Prosecutor Oh said, "The Special Prosecutor Act is the subject of investigation, and we are setting up suspicions that there were election interventions such as illegal and false opinion polls and nomination deals in the 21st National Assembly election, including Kim Gun-hee, Myung Tae-kyun, and the Constitutional Court Justice, 2021 by-elections, the 8th national by-elections, and the 22nd National Assembly election." "We will quickly analyze the seizure and summon those involved to find out the truth."
Rep. Yoon Sang-hyun and the 尹 couple are connected
All of those who were subject to the search and seizure by the independent counsel team are related to the alleged involvement of former President Yoon and his wife in the nomination process. Yoon and Kim will appear in the 2022 parliamentary by-election, and Kim will appear in the 22nd general election in 2024.
Rep. Yoon was the chairman of the People's Power Nomination Management Committee at the time of the 2022 by-election, when former lawmaker Kim was strategically nominated in Changwon and Uichang districts. According to a recording released by the Democratic Party of Korea in October last year, former President Yoon told Myung Tae-kyun on May 9, 2022, "The officialdom brought it to me, so I said, 'Kim Young-sun should do it for me.' On May 10 of the same year, the day after the call was made and the day of former President Yoon's inauguration, former lawmaker Kim was nominated as a candidate for the National Assembly in Changwon and Uichang, South Gyeongsang Province.
The key to the special prosecution team's investigation is to check whether Yoon and his wife tried to nominate Kim in exchange for 81 free public opinion polls from Myung, and whether Yoon was involved in the process. If Yoon and his wife ordered Yoon to nominate Kim, they could be charged with bribery and obstruction of business by force under the Special Price Act. However, to apply this, evidence is needed that the members of the People's Power Mission were pressured by Yoon and his wife during the nomination process.
I think the evidence is full and overflowing.
Everyone who's already seen the news said they talked to Yoon Sang-hyun, the head of the mission
Didn't you hear it all.
They believe in the insurgents and do everything as they are told
They were in a competition for loyalty.
Of course, you will have to be held accountable for a number of illegal things.