"Didn't you know that Lee Jae-myung, Kim Yong-yu and Yoo Dong-gyu traded funds for the presidential election?"

People's Power lawmakers from the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee urged the prosecution to thoroughly investigate allegations that Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, was involved in the illegal political fund scandal of his close aide, Kim Yong-eun.

They held a press conference and asked Lee, "Didn't you know the dirty deal between Kim, a close aide, and Yoo Dong-kyu, a former head of Seongnam Urban Development Corporation?"

Lee then claimed that he went into a Telegram room created by Kim's lawyers and shared the trial situation and even suggested a defense strategy, rather than reprimanding Kim for accepting illegal presidential election funds.

Earlier, the prosecution submitted a statement to the court on charges of perjury to the case, which contained circumstantial evidence that representative Lee was involved in former vice chairman Kim's trial argument.