Prosecutors currently investigating the so-called "salmon and liquor party inducement allegations" summoned former SSANGBANGWOOL Vice Chairman Bang Yong-cheol on the 6th.
According to legal sources, the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office human rights violation inspection task force (TF) called in the former vice chairman as a suspect around 10 a.m. that day and is under investigation.
The former vice chairman is accused of bribing Ahn Bu-su, head of the Asia-Pacific Peace Exchange Association, who had been a key witness in the SSANGBANGWOOL remittance-to-North Korea trial, to make him recant his testimony by providing Ahn with various conveniences and financial benefits.
Prosecutors suspect that, starting in March 2023 and for about 2 years and 8 months, the SSANGBANGWOOL side provided an officetel to Ahn's daughter and covered the rent and deposit, effectively giving her 72.8 million won.
There are also allegations that they made it appear as though Ahn's daughter was employed by an SSANGBANGWOOL affiliate and paid her 27.05 million won in the form of fake wages.
Earlier last month, prosecutors sought arrest warrants for the former vice chairman Bang, Ahn, and a former SSANGBANGWOOL director surnamed Park on these charges, but the court rejected all of them.
Prosecutors plan to summon the former director Park on the 7th and former SSANGBANGWOOL Chairman Kim Sung-tae for questioning on the 8th.