"Kim Mun-ki and Baek Hyun-dong's remarks were false..."Rejecting Lee Jae-myung's Claims

People's Power 'Golf Photo' Revealed...Lee Jae-myung "fabricated"

Lee Jae-myung said, "It's not a picture of the day, and I don't remember anything related."

The court and the prosecution's allegations of 'cooperative behavior' were also partially rejected

Prosecutors said, "Kim Mungi's ignorance is false information about 'communication'".

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The first trial court read the sentence and refuted the claims of Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party.

In summary, the court concluded that not only the remarks related to the late Kim Moon-ki but also the remarks related to Baekhyun-dong were false.

Reporter Kim Chul-hee reports.

[Reporter]
CEO Lee Jae-myung has always insisted that he did not know Kim Moon-ki when he was mayor of Seongnam.

When the People's Power released a photo of CEO Lee with Kim, he explained, "I took some of the photos off and manipulated them as if I played golf."

[Lee Jae-myung / Then-Democratic presidential candidate (Channel A 'Lee Jae-myung's Proposal - Conversation with the Youth' in 2021): I took a picture of four people from the People's Power and released it as if I was playing golf, but when I checked, some of our group photos were taken off and shown. It was manipulated.]

This "manipulation" remark, which was not considered an issue, caught CEO Lee's ankle at the end.

First of all, the court considered that the remarks should be interpreted to mean that "I did not play golf with Kim Moon-ki while on an overseas business trip."

However, Kim and Yoo Dong-gyu are the only people who played golf together during Lee's overseas business trip, so it can be judged that Lee intentionally announced false information.Regarding

{Baekhyeon-dong Development Repurposing', CEO Lee has argued that it was inevitable because of threats from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, but

[Lee Jae-myung / After the Democratic Party of Korea presidential election (last 2021, Gyeonggi-do State audit): If you don't change the use (of it), I'm not threatening to do everything about dereliction of duty or anything, so I'll reflect on it a little bit....]

The court emphasized that there was no demand from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and no threat to government officials.

However, some of the prosecution's claims were rejected.

Under the Public Official Election Act, candidates cannot disclose false information about "actions," and the prosecution has argued that Lee can be punished because he told false information about his "communication" with Kim.

In response, the court said that 'I don't know someone' is not explicitly included in the prohibition of publication,
As the prosecution argued
, it drew a line, saying that interpreting it as an "action" should be stricter.

In addition, remarks made at the National Audit Office cannot be criminally punished, or
Representative Lee's claim that the prosecution illegally collected evidence
was also rejected.

I'm Kim Chulhee of YTN.

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: Choi Sung-hoon
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