Lee Jae-myung Accused of Using Company to Pay $3 Million to North Korea to Secure His Visit
It appears the going rate for a DPK politician to visit North Korea is at least $3 million:
Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was grilled by prosecutors again Tuesday over allegations of his involvement in a company’s illegal remittance to North Korea in 2019.
Lee, chair of the main opposition Democratic Party, left the Suwon District Prosecutors Office after around five hours of questioning on charges of third-party bribery, three days after he underwent the first round of questioning on Saturday.
“I don’t know why (investigators) called me again, as they again failed to put forth even a single piece of evidence,” Lee told reporters upon leaving the office.
The investigation centers on allegations that Ssangbangwool Group, an underwear maker, illegally transferred US$8 million to North Korea between January 2019 and January 2020 on behalf of Gyeonggi Province.
Prosecutors suspect that, of the total remittance, $5 million was meant for Gyeonggi’s smart farm support program in North Korea while the remaining $3 million was what the North had demanded as the cost of facilitating Lee’s visit to North Korea.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but this story only came out because the former company chairman was arrested for embezzlement and made the accusations.
This anti-Korean communist is a terrible, horrible, awful person.
Remember when his (typically authoritarian socialist) method to “protect” small business owners from failure was to restrict small business owners from starting small business?
You don’t remember that becasue leftist media covered it up like it never happened.
Despite places like old Hong Kong and 1998 Korea serving as clear examples for what happens when the government goes and finds something else to do other than finding new barriers to small-scale free enterprise, the commies, socialists, corporatists, petty tyrants, et al., just have to destroy everything they can for ideological or professional reasons.
Stopping people from making a living is an existential threat and the response should reflect that.
https://onekoreanetwork.com/2021/10/28/lee-jae-myung-proposes-a-quota-on-restaurants/
This idea did not happen in a vacuum. It is an integral part of his total ideological viewpoint and a window into all the quiet parts he doesn’t say out loud but would love to implement if he could.
When these people slip up and tell you who they are, believe them.
They keep bothering this guy, with no evidence in hand (otherwise, why aren’t they arresting him???). Because this is their way to squash any political opposition and have a defacto one-party rule.