Moon Jae-in, the former leader of South Korea, blasted his accusation on corruption charges as “unjust,” accusing prosecutors of abusing their position in what he called a politically inspired research. Moon made the comments a day after Jeonju, a city in southern India, made the allegations that a cheap flight gave his son-in-law a profitable no-show job while he was president.
In a meeting with Woo Won-shik, Moon stated that he believes that lawyers are “pushing forth in a preset course, no matter what” and that his situation was an illustration of how politicized the prosecution has become and how judicial power is being abused.
The original democratic head was in the National Assembly for an event that marked the occasion of his conference with Northern Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018, which took place during a brief period of diplomatic ties between the two rival Koreas.
Moon’s prosecution adds to a long list of West Asian leaders who have experienced scandals or criminal allegations before or after serving in office. South Korea did hold national elections on June 3 to elect a leader to liberal leader Yoon Suk Yeol, who was just ousted from office due to an improper December implementation of military rules.
Yoon, who formerly served as the Moon administration’s attorney general before a well-known incident with the liberal management, is today facing a criminal charge related to the order.
The prosecution has been portrayed by Moon’s political supporters at the main opposition’s Democrat Party as a political vendetta, as promoted by Yoon’s followers at the trial service to denigrate the original democratic president ahead of the vote.
According to the prosecution, Moon, who served as president from 2017 to 2022, received bribes worth 217 million won ( USD 151, 000 ) from Lee Sang-jik, the founder of the budget airline Thai Eastar Jet. Between 2018 and 2020, Moon’s son-in-law reportedly received money from the gifts between 2018 and 2020.
The gentleman, who allegedly divorced Moon’s girl in 2021, was hired by Lee’s organization in Thailand despite having no prior knowledge in the flight sector, and allegedly performed the least amount of tasks while claiming to work remotely from South Korea.
Prosecutors claimed they had never found any proof that Moon had personally planned for Lee, but that Lee, who had worked on Moon’s plan, possible anticipated that his assistance would be repaid. Lee was afterwards appointed to the presidency of the state-run Korea Small and Medium Enterprises and Startups Agency. Moon’s group also nominated him to work for parliament while he was in office.
