Kim Hye-kyung, spouse of primary opposition chief Lee Jae-myung, seems from a courtroom in Suwon on Nov. 14. (Yonhap)
The spouse of the primary opposition Democratic Social gathering chief Lee Jae-myung has filed an enchantment in opposition to a court docket ruling that fined her for offering free meals throughout Lee’s run within the social gathering main for the 2022 presidential election, individuals aware of the matter stated Monday.
Kim Hye-kyung submitted the enchantment to the Suwon District Courtroom, south of Seoul, by means of her authorized counsel, after she was discovered responsible of offering meals value 104,000 received ($74.43) to the wives of three former and present social gathering lawmakers and three of her aides at a restaurant in Seoul in August 2021.
That was shortly after Lee had declared his bid for the social gathering election.
Within the court docket ruling final Thursday, Kim was fined 1.5 million received.
The court docket discovered that Kim was responsible of permitting her secretary to make use of a company card from the Gyeonggi regional authorities, the place her husband was governor on the time, to pay for the meals.
Kim has denied the fees and argued that the ruling was a “responsible conviction primarily based on assumption.” (Yonhap)
