President Lee Jae Myung on Monday appointed veteran lawyer Ahn Gweon-seob as a particular counsel to research a lacking banknote-strap case involving a shaman related to former first woman Kim Keon Hee and an unpaid severance case at a subsidiary of e-commerce big Coupang.
Ahn was chosen from a shortlist of particular prosecution candidates beneficial by a parliamentary particular committee on Sunday, presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung mentioned.
A managing companion at Daeryun Regulation Agency, Ahn beforehand served as chief of a felony division on the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Workplace and head of the trial division on the Seoul Excessive Prosecutors Workplace.
In December, the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors Workplace had seized 50 million received ($34,000) in money wrapped in banknote straps throughout a raid on the house of Jeon Seong-bae, higher referred to as Geonjin.
Prosecutors, nevertheless, did not hint the supply of the funds after the straps went lacking in the course of the investigation.
Such banknote straps sometimes comprise key data such because the date of inspection and identification quantity and are thought of essential clues for investigators when tracing the stream of funds.
Individually, Ahn’s workforce may even examine allegations that senior prosecutors exerted stress to clear Coupang Success Providers, Coupang’s logistics affiliate, of expenses in an unpaid severance pay case.
Ahn will probably be given a 20-day preparation interval to launch the particular probe, which may last as long as 90 days.
