Decided as early as the 14th whether to arrest Myung Tae-kyun and Kim Young-sun

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The prosecution investigating the 'suspected involvement in the nomination' has requested arrest warrants for key parties, Myung Tae-kyun and former lawmaker Kim Young-sun.

Arrest is expected to be decided as early as Thursday.

Reporter Lim Hyungjun reports.

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The prosecution has requested arrest warrants for Myung Tae-kyun and former lawmaker Kim Young-sun, who are key figures in the "suspicious intervention of nomination."

This is because money has been exchanged between the two since the 2022 parliamentary by-election.

is accused of receiving more than 90 million won from former lawmaker Kim since August 2022.

Former lawmaker Kim and Myung explained this to the prosecution to the effect that they lent and paid back each other.A lawyer for

argued that it was not a matter to be arrested.

[Lawyer Soyeon Kim / Lawyers for Myung Tae Gyun: There is no need to issue an arrest warrant. There is no seriousness of crime at all. And there is no fear of escape at all. I'm living well with my kids. It's only right when you're not bound.]

The prosecution called Myeong last Friday and weekend to investigate whether he violated the Political Fund Act for two consecutive days.

In addition, on the 3rd and 4th, former lawmaker Kim was summoned for two days to investigate.

As the summoning of key figures has been completed, the results of the recruitment are drawing attention.

In the meantime, attention is being paid to whether the allegations of involvement in the nomination of President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife, which are linked to the alleged violation of the Political Fund Act, will be revealed.It is suspected that

has been polling free of charge for then-candidate Yoon Suk Yeol in the last presidential election and receiving the nomination of former lawmaker Kim in return.

In response, Myung's side plans to submit data to the court to prove that he is not the real owner of the polling agency.

Along with the two, the prosecution also requested arrest warrants for two people who were preliminary candidates for the Yeongnam region's local government head and metropolitan city council in the 8th local election.

A warrant hearing will be held on the 14th to determine whether or not the four people will be arrested.

Meanwhile, Kang Hye-kyung, who was investigated by the prosecution eight times on the same charges, was excluded from the prosecution's request for an arrest warrant.

I'm YTN's Lim Hyungjun.