Eight organizations including media consumer sovereignty actions
“Corresponds to anti-social and anti-national fraud”
“The prosecution crushes the investigation of corruption in Mr. Bang’s family”
The Chosun Ilbo office building in Gwanghwamun, Seoul. Hankyoreh material photo
Regarding the suspicion of manipulating the Chosun Ilbo by the Korea ABC Association, an organization that investigates and announces the publication and payment of newspapers and magazines, civic groups in the media prosecution on charges of violating the Act on Fraud and Subsidies Management by Chosun Ilbo and Chairman Bang Sang-hoon. Accused. On the 2nd, 8 civic groups, including the Press Consumer Sovereignty Action and the Institute for People’s Livelihoods, published a joint press release. It also announced that he filed a complaint with the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office on the same day for violating the Fair Trade Act (unfair trade act), violating the subsidy management law, and obstructing business through hierarchies and obstructing the execution of public affairs. They said, “The fact that the accused ABC Association, the only agency in Korea that conducts investigation and presentation on the number of newspapers issued recently, fabricated the incidental construction of the accused Chosun Ilbo, was reported by former ABC Association secretary director Park Yong-hak and the results of the investigation by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. It was revealed to the world by,” he said. “The sincerity rate of the branch offices built by the ABC Association was 98%, but as a result of the investigation by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the competent authority, the sincerity rate of the branch office was less than 60%.” In addition, even though the number of copies issued and paid for the Chosun Ilbo was significantly less than the number reported to various government agencies and public corporations, (The Chosun Ilbo and ABC Association) jointly offered to provide false copies and paid copies to Korean government agencies and public corporations. He reported the number of copies, and received a higher rate of advertising expenses from government agencies and public corporations who were deceived by it. “He is guilty of fraud because he has stolen an amount equivalent to the difference between the advertising charges when the number of issued copies and paid copies were reported normally. ”He added.
On the morning of the 2nd, Jong-hak Kim, co-representative of the Consumer Sovereignty Act (left) and head of the Minsheng Economic Research Institute, are filing a complaint with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. Provided by the People’s Economic Research Institute
They said, “The Chosun Ilbo, a large conglomerate already manipulating the number of issued and paid copies, has taken an unfair advantage from at least billions to as many as tens of billions of unreasonable gains through subsidies for not only advertising expenses of government agencies, but also people directly. It was a serious anti-social, anti-governmental fraud and blood tax takeover,” he argued. “The Korean people’s taxes, which were unreasonably stolen by the Chosun Ilbo, must be returned and sanctions must be collected.” The accuser, Ahn Jin-geol, head of the Minsaeng Economic Research Institute, said, “Illegal corruption cases of the Bang’s family in the Chosun Ilbo, which several media civic groups jointly accused of long ago (△The Bang Sang-hun family’s luxurious illegal graveyard and forest damage case in Uijeongbu △Bang Jeong-oh’s company driver and Prosecutor Yoon Seok-yeol is not conducting any investigations or prosecutions in relation to the company’s personal abuse-related incidents △Chosun Ilbo’s senior executives and lobbyist Park Soo-Hwan’s article transaction △Chosun Ilbo’s illegal stock trading case between the Bang’s family and Suwon University’s subsidiaries). He said, “I strongly urge the prosecution to pursue a thorough investigation and strict punishment for illegal corruption cases of the Chosun Ilbo and the Chosun Ilbo’s family even now.” By Oh Seung-hoon, staff reporter