Prosecutors indicted Lee Jae-myung on charges of misappropriation of corporate credit cards.Kim Hye-kyung's suspension of prosecution

Prosecutors Prosecute Representative Lee Jae-myung for Suspicion of Use of Corporate Card
5th indictment following the 'perjury teacher case' ahead of sentencing
His spouse Kim Hye-kyung was suspended from prosecution...Attending Secretary Bae to Prosecute

[Anchor]
The prosecution handed over Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, to trial today (19th), who was accused of misappropriating corporate credit cards when he was governor of Gyeonggi Province.

I'll connect you to a reporter from the Ministry of Social Affairs in detail.

Reporter facial expression, the prosecution indicted representative Lee?

[Journalist]
Yes, that's right.

The Suwon District Prosecutors' Office today (19th) indicted Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, who is suspected of misappropriating corporate cards in Gyeonggi Province, without detention on charges of professional breach of duty.

It is the fifth indictment after the Public Official Election Act, which was sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation in the first trial on the 15th, and the perjury teacher case, which is set to be sentenced to the first trial on the 25th.

At the same time, the prosecution said it indicted without detention Mr. A, the chief of staff, and Mr. Bae, the accompanying secretary of his wife, Kim Hye-kyung, when he was governor of Gyeonggi Province.

However, CEO Lee's spouse Kim's private use of the corporate card was suspended.

The prosecution judged that Lee spent about 106 million won from 2018 to 2021 when he was governor of Gyeonggi Province, spending his budget on fruits or sandwiches to eat privately or using official cars regardless of official duties.

Prosecutors said at the time that the "samo's team" bought fruits and sandwiches for Lee and his wife to eat, but they made false spending resolutions under the chief of staff and were treated as Gyeonggi Province's budget.

He also pointed out that Lee and his wife paid 8.9 million won worth of food such as beef and sushi for free with a corporate card in Gyeonggi Province, and wrote false documents as if they were using corporate cards for public purposes to disguise them as legitimate expenditures.

Lee and his wife then said they used the official car like a private car throughout their term, such as stopping it in their home parking lot and attaching apartment parking stickers, and judged that they earned at least 60 million won in combined rent and car washing costs.

The allegations were made public when Cho, a former official at the Gyeonggi Provincial Government, exposed them, and in August last year, Cho reported to the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, asking them to investigate former CEO Lee's instructions on the use of corporate cards and acquiescence.

The Suwon District Prosecutors' Office has taken over the case that the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission transferred to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office after judging that "CEO Lee may have known about his spouse's misappropriation of corporate cards."

I'm YTN's Choi Sang-woo from the social studies department.