The four-hour briefing still has questions...When I opened the prosecution's judgment,

[Anchor]
The prosecution unusually held a briefing for nearly four hours, explaining why it was impossible to hold Kim Gun-hee guilty.

However, questions remain as to whether the investigation was carried out properly, such as not being able to conduct a single search and seizure of Mrs. Kim for four and a half years.

I'm reporter Kim Tae-won.

[Reporter]
The prosecution listed the grounds for determining that Kim Gun-hee could not be prosecuted against the press corps for about four hours.The prosecution explained that there was no direct evidence that Mrs.

Kim was involved in market manipulation, and that it tried to determine whether there were charges based on indirect and circumstantial evidence.

In particular, the statements made by those involved that Mrs. Kim may not have known that the stock price manipulation was taking place at the time served as the basis for the judgment.

Kwon Oh-soo, former chairman of Deutsche Motors, the main culprit, stated that there was no manipulation to inform Kim as he claimed that there was no market price manipulation itself, and that Lee and Kim thought they had done so when Kim received a request from Kwon, who they usually trusted.I even made a table and explained the reason why I couldn't charge Mrs. Kim with 'aiding'



In order for the charges of assistance to be admitted, one must be aware that market manipulation takes place and one must be aware that he is helping the crime, but it was difficult for Mrs. Kim to recognize stock price manipulation even if it was incompletely due to her lack of experience and knowledge.

However, the prosecution's explanation also leaves a question mark.

In 2020, at the beginning of the investigation, the prosecution once requested a search warrant for Kim's residence, office and mobile phone, but it was rejected, but it did not request it again after that.

Prosecution officials said they doubted the court would issue a warrant for a case more than a decade later, and that they believed the investigation would be more difficult if the claim was filed and rejected again.

In addition, he only replied that he did not know the exact circumstances of receiving an answer only in July, a year after sending the second written questionnaire to Mrs. Kim.

He added that Democratic lawmakers are not responding to the request for attendance, pointing to the money envelope case, when he pointed out that there is no equity with ordinary suspects.

The prosecution emphasized that it thoroughly investigated so that there were no loopholes even if the records of the investigation were disclosed in the future and anyone saw them.

However, it seems difficult to say whether the disposition is the result of a proper investigation of the case or a conclusion that the public can accept.

I'm Kim Taewon of YTN.

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