The daughter of former special prosecutor Park Young-soo, who led the probe into alleged state capture under Park Geun-hye, has been summarily indicted on charges of receiving an apartment in Daejang-dong without going through a public lottery.
According to legal sources on the 13th, the Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 1 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office (headed by Director General Guk Won) summarily indicted earlier this month a person surnamed Park, the daughter of the former special prosecutor, as well as former Hwacheon Daeyu CEO Lee Seong-mun, on charges of violating the Housing Act.
A summary indictment is a procedure in which prosecutors ask a court to impose a fine or fines through a paper review instead of a formal trial. Prosecutors are understood to have sought a 5 million won fine for the former CEO Lee and a 3 million won fine for Park, respectively.
Lee is accused of arbitrarily allocating Daejang-dong apartments in June 2021 to Park and others who did not meet residency requirements, without going through a public lottery.
Park joined Hwacheon Daeyu in June 2016 through the introduction of private Daejang-dong developer Kim Man-bae and worked there until September 2021. Prosecutors believe that in June 2021 Park received allocation of an 84㎡ exclusive-area apartment owned by Hwacheon Daeyu at about half the market price, reaping roughly 800 million won in capital gains.
Prosecutors dropped charges against four Hwacheon Daeyu executives and employees who had faced allegations of concealing criminal proceeds. They were accused of receiving tens of billions of won in the name of performance bonuses between 2019 and 2021 despite knowing that Kim had obtained criminal proceeds through Hwacheon Daeyu.
Prosecutors determined that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that the employees recognized that the bonuses they received constituted part of criminal proceeds. Accordingly, that portion of the case was closed with a decision not to indict.