The special counsel for Kim Keon-hee said on the 27th, "The report that Special Counsel Min Joong-ki expressed an intention to resign to the presidential office, but the presidential office rejected it, is not true."
In a media notice that day, the special counsel said, "Regarding the article that Special Counsel Min Joong-ki visited the Yongsan presidential office to express an intention to resign, but the presidential office rejected it, this is not true."
Earlier that day, one media outlet reported that "after the stock investment controversy broke out, Special Counsel Min visited the presidential office to express an intention to resign, but the presidential office rejected it, asking to remain in the post until late November."
Previously, it belatedly came to light that in the early 2000s, Special Counsel Min bought 10,000 unlisted shares of Neosemitech, a solar material company created by alumni of Daejeon High School, and sold them just before delisting, earning a profit of a little over 1 billion won.
This raised suspicions that Special Counsel Min had obtained delisting information in advance from the company's CEO and sold the shares beforehand. Special Counsel Min said, "I did nothing illegal in the process of stock investment." However, the People Power Party filed a complaint with prosecutors against Special Counsel Min on suspicion of violating the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act.
The controversy surrounding the special counsel for Kim Keon-hee does not end there. It was also belatedly revealed that in 2021, Director General Han Moon-hyeok, who was investigating suspicions that the first lady was involved in Deutsch Motors stock price manipulation, had a private drinking session with Lee Jong-ho, former head of Black Pearl Invest, a party related to the case. The Ministry of Justice ended Han's dispatch and reassigned him as acting duty officer to the Suwon High Prosecutors' Office.