Posted March. 26, 2002 10:00,
The Special Prosecution team (SP) led by Prosecutor Cha learned that Kim Sung-Hwan has had 9 billion won in 6 hidden accounts in total and some of the money has flown into the accounts related to the Kim Dae-Jung Peace Foundation.
In addition, Special Prosecutor Cha revealed that the writer of the documents for `regaining the political power` and for `the press reformation` that were confiscated from the house of Lee Soo-Dong seems to be a government official.
SP completed its investigation for 105 days after releasing such conclusion of the investigation.
SP also commented that `the chance are high for more hidden accounts to be found since the 6 hidden accounts were disclosed in the process of account tracing that is not completed yet.
According to SP, 50-150 million won cash was deposited from a P construction company several times and transferred to other accounts including KDJPF through the 6 secret accounts.
An SP official said that “we`ve learned that a few hundred million won out of the 9 billion won was delivered to Kim Hong-Up but we did not included the fact in the report since we requested for the investigation of the Public Prosecution.”
SP also revealed that it was difficult to see 1 billion won out of it as a regular transaction of money and could not figure out the real owner of the account so that it requested for more investigation on it to the Public Prosecution.
With regard to the leak of investigation information, SP said, “Lee Soo-Dong made a reservation of a flight ticket to the U.S. on November 6th after hearing about the secret investigation of the Prosecution and the telephone call of the suspected high prosecutor was made before Mr. Lee made a reservation.¡°
With regard to former lawmaker Kim Bong-Ho, SP judged that 260 million won deposited in a secret account of Mr. Kim including 50 million won from Lee Yong-Ho is suspected as an illegal political fund and requested for more investigation to the Public Prosecution.
In relation to the suspicion that the Financial Supervisory Service intervened in the investigation on the case of Lee Yong-Ho, SP also requested for additional investigation on the suspicion that Kim Young-Jae took a bribe of 20 million won bribe and the suspicion of misfeasance by former inspection director Yoon Seung-Han.
SP also requested for investigation on the suspicions on 2 million won deposit of Lee Yong-Ho`s money in the account of the family of Kim Hyung-Yoon, former economy team director of the National Intelligence Service, solicitation for jobs by Lee Soo-Dong and Do Seung-Hee, and the forgery of the passport of Kim Young-Jun, former owner of Daeyang Bank and the concealment of an offender by a professor Kim.
However, SP completed the investigation on the suspicion that the investigation chain of commander including Lim Hui-Yoon, former Pusan High Prosecutors General committed misfeasance on the investigation of Lee Yong-Ho case in 2000. SP concluded that the suspicion is groundless and the suspicion on the interruption of former Prosecutor General Shin Seung-Nam to stop the investigation has no evidence.