Myung Taekyun's refutation...an investigation into the president's wife and accuser

Myung's side said, "There is objective evidence..."Kang Hye-kyung's words are contradictory."

Summoning the CEO of the Future Korea Research Institute..."Myeong's claim is not true."

Prosecutors search and seizure of PNR...We have started to investigate the suspicions.

"Doubtful" of the nomination of a pricey candidate...The President's wife and accuser are also investigated.

[Anchor]
Myeong Tae-kyun, a key figure in the 'suspected intervention of the nomination', said he would refute it in earnest, saying there was objective evidence.

The prosecution is closely looking at the entire process of the poll, which is the beginning of the suspicion of intervening in the nomination.

I'm reporter Lim Hyung-joon.

[Reporter]
The prosecution investigated Myung Tae-kyun for the second time since his arrest.Mr.

countered in earnest, saying there was objective evidence of the flow of money that came and went in return for nominations.

Kang Hye-kyung, who exposed the suspicions, argues that she has secured some evidence, saying it contradicts her words.

[Nam Sang-gu lawyer/Myeong Tae-kyun's lawyer: The timing and location of Kang Hye-kyung's cash delivery are not specific, and we found a lot of contradictions between the initial position and the prosecution's statement]

The prosecution also summoned Kim Tae-yeol, CEO of the Korea Institute for Future Studies, to investigate.

Mr. Kim said that Mr. Myung is covering up allegations of meddling in the nomination with money, and that all of his claims are false.

[Kim Tae-yeol / Korea Institute of Future Studies Registrar: Myung Tae-kyun is taking this issue as a simple matter of money to cover up his mistakes. Not everything is true about what Myung Tae-kyun claims. I will also state all the facts as they are in today's investigation.]

Prosecutors recently raided pollster PNR.

PNR is the place where ARS telephone lines were rented during a poll by the Future Korea Research Institute during the last presidential election.

The prosecution's search and seizure is aimed at looking at the entire process of the poll, which is the beginning of the suspicion of intervention in the nomination.The key to the suspicion is whether

polled for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was a candidate at the time of the presidential election, and has been nominated by former lawmaker Kim Young-sun in return.

The same is true of the investigation of representatives of civic groups, who accused President Yoon and his wife, who were transferred from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, of violating the Public Official Election Act.

The prosecution seems to be focusing its investigative power on finding out the truth of the alleged intervention in the nomination by calling in those involved every day after the arrest of Myung and former lawmaker Kim.

Attention is focusing on what kind of investigation the prosecution can produce amid political repercussions over the case.

I'm YTN's Lim Hyungjun.



Photographer: Kang Tae-woo Shin Hong
VJ: Moon Jae-hyun