Lee Jae-myung's "Red Light"... Lee Hwa-young is guilty of paying for visiting North Korea. [Y Record]

■ Host: Kim Sun-young Anchor, Jung Chae-woon Anchor
■ Starring: Attorney Kim Kwang-sam

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◆ Anchor
The former Deputy Governor Lee Hwa-young's appeal was sentenced yesterday, so we will also deal with this. I saw yesterday that the sentence was slightly less than the first trial. Why is that?

◇ Kim Kwang-sam
You must have taken into account various circumstances. The first trial is 9 years and 6 months, and it's medium-sized. But it's different for each judge to judge. Therefore, the sentence was reduced to 7 years and 8 months in consideration of various circumstances rather than 9 years and 6 months. It was almost at the discretion of the judge, you can see it like this.

◆ Anchor
With the result of the appeal of former Vice Governor Lee Hwa-young, attention is naturally drawn to Lee Jae-myung's trial. How will it affect you?

◇ Kim Kwang-sam
If you look at the indictment related to Lee Hwa-young, it says that he conspired with CEO Lee Jae-myung. And among the criminal charges, there are $5 million and $3 million related to remittances to North Korea, with $5 million paid by Gyeonggi Province instead of 5 million for smart farm-related ones to North Korea, and $3 million paid $3 million for protocol for Lee Jae-myung's visit to North Korea.

Then, the prosecution saw this as an accomplice because representative Lee Jae-myung, who was the governor of Gyeonggi-do Province, was related to the smart farm in Gyeonggi-do Province and then the protocol was related to representative Lee Jae-myung's visit to North Korea. In the first and second trials, it was not indicated as an accomplice, but overall, it was CEO Lee Jae-myung who benefited from this. Then, in fact, Lee Hwa-young did the practical things, but Lee Hwa-young denies everything and says it has nothing to do with Lee Jae-myung.

But CEO Lee Jae-myung has been indicted and has not even started his trial yet.I'm doing it. So, most of the facts are recognized, so it seems that most of these things, such as remittance to North Korea or the purpose of remittance to North Korea, were done for representative Lee Jae-myung in the second trial. Then did CEO Lee Jae-myung receive the report? Or even if he was not briefed, there are still parts such as whether he condoned this explicitly or implicitly or whether he participated in it, so if Lee Hwa-young is innocent, Lee Jae-myung will of course be innocent. But the lawyer also said that in the first trial. If Lee Hwa-young is convicted, it could be a document believed to be guilty of representative Lee Jae-myung. Since he once argued in this way, the second trial ruling against Lee Hwa-young, if confirmed by the Supreme Court, could be a very unfavorable factor for Lee Jae-myung.

◆ Anchor
Let's get to this last. Anyway, Lee Hwa-young's trial has come out to the appeal trial, and Lee Jae-myung's trial will just begin, so which part will be the biggest issue. As you pointed it out a little while ago, it would be nice if you could organize it again. There were mixed statements about whether former Deputy Governor Lee Hwa-young reported to then-Governor Lee Jae-myung. How will that be sorted out?

◇ Kim Kwang-sam
So it was an important issue whether or not you reported it. But Lee Hwa-young made a statement that she reported it as a result and reversed it. The prosecution said it was done by conciliation and never did, but I personally think that even if you didn't report it, it will depend on how you judge the various evidence that has appeared so far. If you report it, it's completely direct evidence. However, I reported the results after I went there and reported the results, and of course, Representative Lee Jae-myung made a formal approval, but I judged the value of evidence for that. It's said that Kim Sung-tae answered the phone with CEO Lee Jae-myung.

So I asked him to help me a lot, and it was his intention to know all that, and Lee Hwa-young also asked him to work for Lee Jae-myung when he first started, and he said, "Will you stay still if you become president?" If Lee Jae-myung knew about these statements as a whole, even if they are not direct, and Lee Jae-myung was involved in them even if they were implicitly, it would be a conviction. Otherwise, if there is no room for representative Lee Jae-myung to be involved in remittance to North Korea with this amount of evidence, he will be acquitted again. However, the conviction of Lee Hwa-young will be very unfavorable to Lee Jae-myung.

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: Yoon Hyun-kyung, Editor of the Digital News Team

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