
Lee Hwa-young, who was sentenced to prison on charges of conspiring to send money to North Korea, said, "We communicated this to President Lee, but they did not act."
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Former Deputy Governor Lee Hwa-young was sentenced to 7 years and 8 months in prison by the Supreme Court on charges of receiving hundreds of millions of bribes from Ssangbangwool Group and conspiring to transfer $8 million to North Korea.
(Suwon = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Sol = Lee Hwa-young, former vice-governor of Gyeonggi Province, who was sentenced to prison by the Supreme Court on charges of receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes from Ssangbangwool Group and conspiring to transfer $8 million to North Korea, was found to have expressed dissatisfaction with President Lee Jae-myung by requesting parole.
Attorney Kim Gwang-min, former vice-governor Lee's lawyer, expressed his position on social media on the afternoon of the 7th by sharing his media interview article explaining that former vice-governor Lee was requesting parole from the Blue House.
In the report, Attorney Kim said, "As former Deputy Governor Lee enters his fifth year in prison, he is very angry with President Lee. We have communicated to President Lee through various channels to request that he be released on parole, but he has not made any moves, so it is difficult to wait any longer."
Regarding this on social media, he said, "There are voices criticizing the interview's language for being too excessive. However, the reality of concluding that the remittance case to North Korea was fabricated and completely neglecting a person who has been imprisoned for five years for that incident is much more severe and cruel."
In a subsequent post, he said, "We turn a blind eye to the contempt of court and dereliction of duty by the prosecutors who left the court en masse during the North Korea remittance case, and former Deputy Governor Lee, who fights for the truth, is still locked up in a cold prison. The truth must come out."
Former Deputy Governor Lee is currently in prison after being sentenced to 7 years and 8 months in prison by the Supreme Court on charges of receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes from Ssangbangwool Group and conspiring to transfer $8 million to North Korea.
Last June, an additional four months in prison were added on charges of perjury surrounding the so-called 'salmon drinking party' appeasement claim.

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