Myung Tae-kyun, a self-proclaimed political dealer, leaves the Changwon District Prosecutors Workplace, South Gyeongsang Province, Nov. 14. Yonhap
A courtroom on Friday issued arrest warrants for a self-proclaimed energy dealer and a former lawmaker on the middle of an influence-peddling scandal linked to President Yoon Suk Yeol and first girl Kim Keon Hee.
The Changwon District Courtroom within the metropolis, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, issued the warrants for Myung Tae-kyun, the alleged dealer who runs a public polling company, and Kim Younger-sun, a former lawmaker of the ruling Individuals Energy Social gathering (PPP).
Myung is suspected of receiving roughly 76 million gained ($54,100) from Kim, the previous lawmaker, on a number of events between August 2022 and November 2023 in alternate for his assist in getting her nominated on the PPP ticket forward of parliamentary by-elections in 2022.
Myung allegedly gained the nomination for Kim in alternate for conducting personalized polls in favor of then PPP presidential candidate Yoon totally free.
The case has drawn additional consideration because the disclosure final month of a cellphone name held between Yoon and Myung a day earlier than the president’s inauguration in Might 2022. Through the name, Yoon prompt he had really helpful Kim to the PPP’s nomination committee.
Prosecutors suspect Kim awarded the cash to Myung, who had claimed to have shut ties to the primary girl, in violation of political funding legal guidelines. (Yonhap)
