Blue House Official Indicted for Role in Ulsan Mayoral Election Meddling
|There has finally been an indictment of a Blue House official in regards to the Ulsan Mayor election meddling case:
Prosecutors on Friday indicted a presidential official in a high-profile political scandal surrounding a 2018 mayoral election.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office charged Lee Jin-seok, presidential secretary for state affairs monitoring, with violating election laws, wrapping up more than a year of investigation into the case in which presidential officials and a ruling party candidate’s campaign allegedly colluded to win the mayoral election in the southeastern city of Ulsan. (…..)
In January 2020, a total of 13 officials including Song Cheol-ho, current mayor of Ulsan and longtime friend of President Moon Jae-in, and Han Byung-do, former senior presidential secretary for political affairs, were put on trial in the same case.
Yonhap
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Someone needed to be thrown under the bus…