"Confirmed testimony was fabricated to go after President Lee": Ruling party releases recording of prosecutor in cash-for-summit probe

[The Financial News] On the 29th, the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) released a recording of Prosecutor Park Sang-yong, who had been investigating the Ssangbangwool Group cash-for-summit scandal, escalating its offensive over allegations of fabricated indictments by the prosecution.
That day, Jeon Yong-gi of the DPK held an emergency press briefing and disclosed two recorded phone calls between Prosecutor Park and attorney Seo Min-seok, who represents former Vice Governor for Peace of Gyeonggi Province Lee Hwa-young. In the recordings, Park Sang-yong is heard telling Seo, "There needs to be a confession in which Mr. Lee Jae-myung is clearly the main culprit and this person (the former vice governor) is an accomplice. Only then can we treat him as a whistleblower and pursue all those options, such as getting him out on bail or not seeking additional arrest warrants. All of that becomes possible."
Attorney Seo attended the briefing and stated, "This case had its conclusion fixed from the very beginning. This is not an investigation; it is 'testimony engineering.'" He claimed that Prosecutor Park had tried to coax him into securing testimony that President Lee Jae-myung was the mastermind behind the case.
As a result, the Special Committee for the National Investigation into the Alleged Political Prosecution and Fabricated Indictments by the Yoon Suk-yeol Administration of the DPK is expected to gain further momentum. The Special Committee for the National Assembly Investigation into Alleged Fabricated Prosecutions by Political Prosecutors plans to conduct an on-site inspection on April 9 at Room 1313 of the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office, where Prosecutor Park’s office is located, as well as at the video-recorded interrogation rooms.
jiwon.song@fnnews.com Song Ji-won Reporter