Prosecutors to question the ex-first lady about the election mixture

The prosecutors asked Kim Keon Hee, the wife of the former President Yoon Suk Yeol, about the investigation of the allegations of election mix with the political broker Myung Tae-Kyun as a suspect.
According to legal sources on Monday, the special investigation team from the Seoul Central District public prosecutor's office, which passed the myung Tae-Kyun, recently sent a summons to Kim, in which it applied for its appearance on Wednesday. She is examined as a suspect under charge of violating the official electoral law and the law on political funds.
Kim is suspected of receiving election services free of charge from myung during the last presidential elections. In return, she allegedly contributed to securing the nomination of Kim Young-Sun, a former Volksmacht party legislator, in parliamentary recruitment for the Changwon Uichang constituency in South Gyeongsang on June 1, 2022.
Additional allegations suggest that the former First Lady was involved in the nomination process for the local elections 2022, including the mayor candidacy for Pohang, North Gyeongsang, and that it influenced the former public prosecutor Kim Sang-Min to run in Kim Young-Sun's former constituency in general elections.
Kim Keon Hee still has to publish an explanation of whether she will comply with the lectures. However, speculation has emerged that in view of her previously uncooperative attitude, she can refuse in similar examinations. If she does not appear on Wednesday, the prosecutors are expected to give a second summons with a new date.

Translated from the Joongang Ilbo with generative AI and edited by Korea Joongang Daily Staff.
By Jeong Hye-Jeong [[email protected]]