[단독]”Please find 50 million won for the player”… ‘Controversy with the collection of deposits’ acting as the former chairman of the Curling Federation, spreading public petitions

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[스포츠서울 김용일기자] “Please find a precious 50 million won to be used to participate in the Winter Olympics.”

Curling national team A, the 9th president of the Korea Curling Federation, filed an appeal in the Cheong Wa Dae national petition, accusing former president Kim Koo-hoe, who recovered 50 million won in donations after losing the election for the president of the Korea Curling Federation. In an appeal, A stated that he was a player preparing for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and emphasized that the deposit of 50 million won from the former chairman’s acting representative, who had only 7% of the vote and less than 20% of the (valid vote), did not belong to the Federation. did. In addition, referring to the declaration of invalidity of the election on the 21st of last month by the Federation Election Commission (election committee), he stressed that ’50 million won was urgently withdrawn the next day by someone in the Federation’.

A is’President! Apart from the large and small amount of 50 million won, in principle, it is the money that should be spent on the players, and it is necessary to investigate who approved the payment by what authority. In particular, he wrote,’It was difficult to participate in the World Championships, which took the right to participate in the Olympic Games due to the claudication of the curling-related factions and the biased NEC to help them, and the participation in the Olympics was in danger of being destroyed.

Source | Blue House National Petition Board

Source | Blue House National Petition Board

In the presidential election of the federation held on the 14th of last month, Kim ended up getting only 6 out of 78 valid votes. They were greatly pushed by the elected candidates Kim Yong-bin (37 votes) and Kim Jung-ro (35 votes). Then, candidate Kim Joong-ro submitted an objection to the Federation Neon Committee saying that there was a problem in the process of forming the electoral team, and the Federation election committee made a decision to invalidate the election six days later. On the 25th, however, the Korea Sports Association, a higher-level organization, imposed a corrective action on the election committee of the Federation and re-announced the cancellation of the invalidation of the election. However, the NEC of the Curling Federation opposed this and confronted it. Afterwards, on the 29th of last month, when Nae Hong intensified over the lapse of the presidential election, he resigned, saying, “It wasn’t enough to take care of it as an acting agency.” However, several interpretations have come and gone over his sudden resignation. He was controversial when he recovered 50 million won in donations after the elections were invalidated by the NEC.

According to the Federation President’s election management regulations, the presidential candidate must pay 50 million won in donation. In addition, it is returned only to candidates who have recorded more than 20% of the valid votes or have died. The donation of candidates with less than 20% of the vote goes to the Federation. Kim, who has only obtained six votes, is not eligible for the refund of the deposit. However, it is reported that the day after the announcement of invalidation of the election, the deposit was received through the office. The Korean Sports Association considers this to be an ex officio abuse as well as embezzlement and infidelity and takes it very seriously. In response, Kim said, “According to the decision to invalidate the election, the Federation returned the deposit in the process of preparing for the re-election, and this brought another spark,” he argued, “it was a legal return.” However, it was criticized by several Curlingers for recovering the deposits at the time when the Sports Association’s Election Fair Commission interpreted the Federation’s decision to invalidate the election. The Emergency Response Committee, which was joined by more than 100 curling athletes and leaders, said, “The Federation Secretariat that returned 50 million won in donation to the candidate who recorded 7% of the vote in the presidential election due to the confusion of the election invalidation and the election committee that approved it should be held legally responsible. ‘

The athletic meet conducted an audit of the Curling Federation on the 1st-5th. An official said, “We plan to deliberate not only on the fairness of the election procedure of the NEC, but also on the collection of deposits from the former representative of Kim.

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