The Democratic Party of Korea on the 16th raised its voice, telling the People Power Party not to distort the intent of the overhaul of the breach of trust offense.
Floor spokesperson Baek Seung-a said at a National Assembly briefing that "we must not distort the purpose of (the overhaul of the breach of trust offense), which aims to improve a system abused as a tool to control corporations during the military dictatorship era and to support economic revitalization."
Baek stressed that "the Daejang-dong development scandal was from the start a politically driven case fabricated in indictment, and the court determined it was unrelated to the president." Baek then said, "Dragging such a case to make a consolidation with the substitute legislation for the breach of trust offense is political distortion with no legal or factual basis whatsoever."
This came in response to People Power Party chief spokesperson Park Sung-hoon's commentary the previous day that "the first beneficiaries of abolishing the breach of trust offense would be the Daejang-dong (development corruption case) ring and President Lee Jae-myung."
Baek said, "We will further refine and subdivide the ambiguous provisions on breach of trust so there is no legislative gap."
Kwon Chil-seung, Director General of the party's task force (TF) on rationalizing economic criminal penalties and civil liability, said on his Facebook page the same day that "the claim that the Democratic Party is simply trying to abolish the breach of trust offense is a distortion of facts and a deception of the public."
Kwon explained, "What we are saying is that we will enact clear substitute legislation by type for the breach of trust offense, which has long been criticized for its vague elements," adding, "To eliminate gaps in punishment and enhance legal stability, we are pursuing substitute legislation with new provisions that have clear elements."