City Councilor Yoon Min-ho says, “The expenditure on the attorney fees of the chairman of the city hospital accounting department must be thoroughly investigated.”

City Councilor Yoon Min-ho: “We need to investigate who used public funds and how.”

(Jeonnam Gwangju = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Cheol-hong = It was confirmed that Jeonnam Gwangju Special Metropolitan City requested an investigation from the police regarding the expenditure of legal fees for the personal criminal case of the chairman of the trustee organization in the accounting of Gwangju City Hospital.

According to Jeonnam Gwangju City Councilor Yoon Min-ho on the 16th, the city conducted a special inspection of the city mental hospital and city nursing hospital last month and confirmed that 16.5 million won in legal fees for the chairman of the Bitgoeul Medical Foundation was used three times in the hospital's accounting, and requested the police to investigate.

The cost was treated as a loan to the chairman personally and was repaid in full on the 7th of last month.

The city judged that the criminal case in question was not directly related to the city hospital's entrusted work and therefore constituted an improper execution of hospital funds used for purposes other than the entrusted purpose, and on the 7th, Rep. Yoon said, it was found that an investigation was requested to the police to confirm whether charges of embezzlement and breach of trust were established.

Rep. Yoon said, “This is not something that ends with belated repayment of attorney fees,” and added, “A thorough investigation is needed into who used public hospital funds and through what procedures for private criminal cases.”

He also urged the prosecution to quickly investigate the case of Bitgoeul Medical Foundation's alleged domination and intervention in the labor union.