Prosecutors sentenced Lee Hwa-young to 15 years in prison in the second trial for "transmitting money to North Korea."

Prosecutors have asked Lee Hwa-young, a former vice governor of peace in Gyeonggi Province, to serve a 15-year prison term in the first trial for being handed over to trial on charges of "illegal remittance to North Korea."

Prosecutors demanded 12 years in prison, a fine of 1 billion won, a fine of 300 million won, and three years in prison for violations of the Foreign Exchange Act at the Suwon High Court today (31st).

The prosecution pointed out that former lieutenant governor Lee committed a backward political and economic collusion crime by receiving hundreds of millions of won in bribes and political funds as a high-ranking government official, and he repeated his complaints inside and outside the court, causing unprecedented obstruction of justice.

Former lieutenant governor Lee was put on trial in 2019 on charges of allowing Ssangbangwool Group to pay $8 million in total, including the cost of Lee Jae-myung, then governor of Gyeonggi-do Province, and the North Korean smart farm project.

Earlier, the prosecution demanded a 15-year prison term for former lieutenant governor Lee in the first trial, but the first trial court found only some charges guilty and sentenced him to nine and a half years in prison.

Five days after the first trial was sentenced to former lieutenant governor Lee in June, the prosecution also indicted Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the Democratic Party, on charges of approving the remittance of double drops to North Korea, and the first trial is currently underway.