Hong Jun-pyo: 'Lee Jae-myung Administration Investigated Me for a Year, But They Will Find Nothing'

Former Daegu Mayor Hong Jun-pyo stated today (Aug. 25), "For a year since the launch of the Lee Jae-myung administration, they have been digging into my background, recently tapping my wife's phone, and thoroughly scrutinizing my election expenses from the October 2021 presidential primary to the April 2025 Daegu mayoral election."

Writing on his Facebook page, Hong said, "Based on a malicious, false tip from a single person claiming that amounts approved by Election Commission inspections during elections were reimbursed through fictitious transactions, they have slapped travel bans on everyone who volunteered at the time and are calling them in every day to harass them. They are saying that if they squeal on Hong Jun-pyo, they will let them go."

Regarding the ongoing investigation, he criticized it by saying, "Their behavior is just like when Han Dong-hoon investigated former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae and Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong. Of the 48 charges indicted by Han Dong-hoon against Yang Sung-tae, 47 were acquitted with only one minor charge sticking, and all 19 charges against Chairman Lee Jae-yong were acquitted. It was a despicable, dust-sifting investigation. Yet, what they are doing is even lower-grade than Han Dong-hoon."

He also questioned, "There is no way I could know volunteer groups scattered across the country, and the funds they voluntarily pooled together to use as campaign support expenses are being turned into fictitious slush funds. Such coercive investigations, operating under the premise of letting you go if you inform on Hong Jun-pyo, are utterly absurd. While investigating the Myung Tae-gyun opinion poll case and finding nothing, they are committing yet another separate-case investigation. Is this an order from the Presidential Office, or is it the arbitrary act of the Daegu Metropolitan Police Agency commissioner blinded by ambition?"

Hong stated, "During the Moon Jae-in administration, there was a time when I, my son, my wife, and even my daughter-in-law were thoroughly investigated for a year and a half. No matter how much they investigated, they found nothing, and it eventually ended when they sent a power figure to apologize. No matter how much of a investigative rampage they throw, they will find nothing. Do not engage in these kinds of petty and despicable acts anymore. I have not lived my life that way."
 
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