The daughter-in-law of former President Chun Doo-hwan lost the lawsuit to cancel the seizure of his home in Yeonhui-dong, Seoul, filed in court on the 22nd.
Former President Chun Doo-hwan, who was charged with defamation of a lion in March 2019, is leaving his home in Yeonhui-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul to attend a trial held in the Gwangju District Court with his wife, Lee Soon-ja. yunhap news
At 2 pm on the 22nd, the 6th administrative division of the Seoul Administrative Court (Deputy Judge Lee Seong-yong) announced that it “dismissed” the lawsuit for invalidation of the seizure disposition filed by former President Chun Doo-hwan’s third daughter-in-law Lee Yoon-hye against the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. Lee filed a lawsuit in October 2018, claiming that it was unfair for the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office to confiscate the annex of Yeonhui-dong’s house in his name by the Crime Proceeds and Recovery Department (formerly a collection of additional surcharges). The person who filed the lawsuit was Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who was then the Seoul Central District Attorney General.
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This trial is one of the lawsuits that the former presidential family filed against the seizure of their home in Yeonhui-dong. When the former president’s home in Yeonhui-dong was handed over to public sale at the request of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office in 2018, he filed an objection to the court, saying it was “unfair disposition”. Along with this, it also filed a lawsuit against the administrative court for’confirmation of invalidity of the seizure disposition’ and’cancellation of the auction disposition’. The objection to the execution of the trial was concluded with the judgment of the Seoul High Court in November of last year.
At that time, the Seoul High Court accepted some of the objections to the execution of the trial filed by the former president. The main house and garden of Yeonhui-dong’s home were decided to cancel the seizure, saying that it was not illegally acquired property during the former president’s tenure. On the other hand, the annex, under the name of his daughter-in-law Lee, judged that the foreclosure was legal. This is because Lee confirmed that the former president’s brother-in-law had bought an annex with slush funds for a bribe, and that the daughter-in-law who transferred ownership in 2013 knew the situation.
Chun Doo-hwan Seized Yeonhui-dong’s house annex. Graphic = Reporter Cha Junhong [email protected]
The lawsuit for canceling the auction disposition filed by the former president’s wife, Lee Soon-ja against the Korea Asset Management Corporation, is also currently pending in the Administrative Court. As it was, the pleadings had to be held on the 7th, but the trial has been postponed due to the quarantine of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). Chun Doo-hwan’s lawyer, who was in charge of the case, said, “As the Seoul High Court decision has been made, we expect the sentence to be sent immediately after the trial resumes.”
Last year, the prosecution received an additional 3,536 billion won, and received 12.29 billion won (an execution rate of 56%) out of the former president’s 2205 billion won in additional fines. The unpaid surcharge is 97 billion won.
Reporter Park Hyun-joo [email protected]