The special counsel team investigating Kim Keon-hee said on the 12th that it had submitted the National Assembly's arrest consent for People Power Party lawmaker Kweon Seong-dong to the court.
At a regular briefing that day, the special counsel said, "The previous day, we received notice of arrest from the National Assembly regarding lawmaker Kweon Seong-dong and submitted it to the Seoul Central District Court."
Except in the case of being caught in the act, a lawmaker cannot be arrested or detained during a National Assembly session without the Assembly's consent. If the arrest motion is passed at a plenary session, the court conducts a pre-arrest suspect interrogation (substantive warrant review) and decides whether to issue a warrant.
The previous day, the National Assembly held a plenary session and passed the arrest motion for lawmaker Kweon with 173 votes in favor, 1 against, 1 abstention, and 2 invalid out of 177 members present. Earlier, the arrest motion for Kweon was reported to the plenary session on the 9th. The special counsel received this arrest motion and submitted it to the court. Accordingly, Kweon is scheduled to undergo a substantive warrant review.
The special counsel believes Kweon received about 100 million won in illegal political funds in January 2022 from former Unification Church World Headquarters Director Yoon Young-ho. He is also suspected of having received valuables the same year from Unification Church President Han Hak-ja.