Sasehaeng accuses Suwon Heavy Water and Fishery Office of Kim Seung-won and others of 'accounting irregularities'

Seven officials of the Gyeonggi Provincial Party of the Democratic Party were requested to be investigated on charges of breach of trust and embezzlement.

(Suwon = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Sol = Citizens’ Action to Establish Judicial Justice (Sasehaeng) reported Kim Seung-won, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, and others to the Suwon Regional Serious Crime Investigation Office (Suwon Central Investigation Office) on suspicion of Gyeonggi Provincial Party accounting fraud.

Sasehaeng visited the Suwon Heavy Water and Water Administration Office around 10 a.m. on the 12th and filed a complaint requesting that seven officials of the Gyeonggi Provincial Party of the Democratic Party, including Rep. Kim, be punished for violating the Political Fund Act, breach of trust, embezzlement, and fraud.

The so-called 'accounting fraud' suspicion is that from 2024, when Rep. Kim served as the Gyeonggi Provincial Party Chairman of the Democratic Party, to last year, the Gyeonggi Provincial Party paid additional salaries to some party officials and then collected them into undeclared bank accounts to create a slush fund and receive 'salary paybacks'.

The suspicion arose when Rep. Kim's former aide filed an internal complaint.

A Sasehaeng official submitted a complaint and claimed, "The defendants are suspected of submitting false documents to the National Election Commission in the name of 'additional salary' in their positions as accountants of the Gyeonggi Province Party of the Democratic Party," and "They fabricated documents submitted to the National Election Commission and the Central Party and inflated the costs, causing damage to the Democratic Party and deceiving the nation."

He continued, “There are suspicions that he falsely stated the cost of a meeting that did not exist and actually spent party money, which was public money, on the cost of a private meal,” and requested, “Please conduct a thorough investigation and severely punish him.”

Previously, on the 2nd, when the Suwon Heavy Water Office was opened, a citizen reported Rep. Kim to the Suwon Heavy Water Office with the same purpose.

Meanwhile, Rep. Kim, who was nominated as a candidate for Minister of Justice, eventually resigned due to various controversies, including these suspicions.