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15.8 billion 80.81 million won.
This is the amount of bribery calculated by Park Geun-hye’s ruling and repatriation of the Gukjeong Nongdan case in July 2020. In a ruling, the court of revocation and repatriation of revocation, “The defendant (Park Geun-hye) received a bribe of over 15 billion won from Lotte and Samsung Group through a private interview with the heads of large corporations, and bribes of 8.9 billion won to SK Group. Demanded.”
The repatriation trial sentenced Park to 20 years in prison, separating the crime of bribery from other crimes. The sentence for bribery was 15 years. In each case, the amount of bribery was large, and the’Act on Aggravated Punishment for Specific Crimes, etc.’ It is stipulated that if the commissioned amount is more than 100 million won, it is imprisoned for life or more than 10 years.
As the ruling on the remand of destruction was made according to the purpose of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Supreme Court is highly likely to finalize the ruling on the 14th. After that, controversy over his amnesty will likely continue. Below is a summary of Mr. Park’s bribery, which was judged by the farewell court.
[뇌물 ①] ‘The core of Gukjeong Nongdan’ Samsung bribes 8.6 billion
The core of the bribery crime of Mr. Park is a bribe received from Samsung in the name of Park Geun-hye and Choi Seo-won (name after Choi Soon-sil’s name changed) from Samsung in the name of supporting Choi’s daughter Jung Yu-ra horseback riding and the Winter Sports Gifted Center. The total amount of Samsung’s bribes calculated by the destruction and repatriation trial was 8.68 billion won. This can be largely divided into support for horseback riding by Jeong Yu-ra (7 billion 52.81 million won) and support for the gifted center owned by Choi (16 28 billion won).
In particular, regarding the support for the gifted center, the Supreme Court emphasized that it was related to the succession work of Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, and the destructive and repatriation trial followed. The following is the’reason for rewriting the judgment’ of the ruling of the revocation court decision.
The defendant requested financial support for the gifted center (omitted) in the house on July 25, 2015. Jae-yong Lee thought that if he accepted the defendant’s request, he could receive the help of the defendant and the government necessary to resolve issues such as his succession work, so he accepted the defendant’s request on the spot. As a result, an agreement was reached between the defendant and Lee Jae-yong to accept a bribe in exchange for an illegal solicitation.
Subsequently, at the direction of Vice Chairman Lee, Samsung sent subsidies to the Gifted Center. At the meeting on February 15, 2016, Mr. Park requested Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong to support the Gifted Center, and Vice Chairman Lee sent the fund again.
In connection with the support of the Youngjae Center, not only bribery charges but also obstruction of ex officio abuse rights were applied to Park. In the case of a request for bribery, the court of revocation of the revocation court said, “In the case of a demand-type bribe, the accusation against the defendant (Park Geun-hye), who is a public official, will be much greater than that of the donor, especially when the request of a public official is accompanied by an act of obstructing the exercise of the right to abuse of authority against the background of his/her authority. I have no choice but to,” he emphasized.
[뇌물 ②] KRW 7 billion received from Lotte Group
On March 14, 2016, Park Geun-hye met Shin Dong-bin, chairman of Lotte Group. At this meeting, Park Geun-hye knew that Lotte Group’s biggest concern was the acquisition of a World Tower duty-free shop patent.
Park requested Chairman Shin to support the K Sports Foundation, and after that, Lotte Group sent 7 billion won to the K Sports Foundation. The K Sports Foundation was founded by the Blue House under the direction of Park Geun-hye. During the establishment and operation process, Mr. Park and Mr. Seowon Choi made close contact, and Mr. Choi was called “Chairman” by the Foundation and was deeply involved in the operation.
In April 2018, Mr. Park said, “The Lotte Group’s act of providing 7 billion won to the K-Sports Foundation is a common recognition that the support is in return for the president’s job execution related to the World Tower duty-free shop patent. Or it is enough to see that it was made under the understanding, and we can fully admit that there was an unjust solicitation between the accused (Park Geun-hye) and Shin Dong-bin.”
The Lotte Group received 7 billion won back after the problem broke out, but Park could not avoid applying the bribe. From the judgment of the court of first instance to the appeal, appeal, and remand of revocation, the court’s conviction regarding the Lotte Group bribe has never changed.
[뇌물 ③] 8.9 billion won promised by SK Group
On February 16, 2016, Mr. Park Geun-hye met Chairman Tae-won Choi at Anga. Chairman Tae-won Choi had issues such as the merger and acquisition of SK Telecom and CJ Hellovision, and Park was aware of this and requested support from the Mir-K Sports Foundation and Seo-won Choi’s guide runner project. The court of first instance admitted that there was an implied improper solicitation, as in the case of the Lotte Group.
SK Group decided to support 8.9 billion won, but the actual support was not provided. Park Geun-hye and Choi Seo-won were charged with a third-party bribe request. The court’s conviction in this regard has never changed during the trial process.
[뇌물 ④] 200 million degree bribe received from the director of the National Intelligence Service
A fierce debate broke out during the trial over whether 3.5 billion won in special project expenses received by Park Geun-hye from Nam Jae-joon, Lee Byung-ki, and Lee Byung-ho, the heads of the National Intelligence Service, was a bribe. Both the first and second trials thought it was not a bribe. It seems that there was a practice of passing the NIS funds from the NIS to the Blue House, and the reason was that Park did not order or report it.
However, the Supreme Court considered that 200 million won received from NIS Chief Lee Byung-ho was a bribe. Destruction and farewell courts also followed.
“The defendant (Park Geun-hye) received this part of the money, which Lee Byeong-ho voluntarily issued without the defendant’s instructions, without any objection,” said “the defendant directly received this part of the money. It seems that the use was derived from the accused’s perception that the characteristics of the 3.3 billion won received from the chiefs of the National Intelligence Service as special project expenses and 200 million won received from the NIS Director Lee Byung-ho were different.”
In addition, he said, “As the head of the National Intelligence Service, as his command, supervisor, and personnel authority, voluntarily distributing a large amount of money to the President, who is difficult to do at the time, is sufficient to question the fairness of the president’s duties to the Director of the National Intelligence Service from the general public.” .