Myung Taekyun, Kim Youngsun, with arrest...A warrant review is in progress.

[Anchor]
Myung Tae-kyun and Kim Young-sun, former members of the People's Power, who are considered to be the key members of the alleged intervention in the nomination, are attending the Changwon District Court for a warrant review.

Neither of them has admitted the charges, and attention is focused on whether they will be taken into custody.

The car is a journalist.

[Reporter]
Myung Tae-kyun, who is suspected of intervening in the nomination, enters the court to undergo a substantive examination of the warrant.

Reporters' questions continued, but they remained tight-lipped,

[Myeong Tae-kyun: (Is it correct that you asked former lawmaker Kim Young-sun to Lee Joon-seok? When did you last meet with Rep. Lee Joon-seok?) Where should I go?]

In a lawyer's opinion, he claimed that the money he received from former lawmaker Kim Young-sun was not paid for the nomination, but the money he lent.Former lawmaker Kim, who attended with

, also left a statement to deny the charges and headed to the court.

[Kim Young-sun / National Assemblyman of the People's Power: The person who got on the same bus as the killer is the murderer because it's such an arrest warrant....]

The prosecution believes that 76 million won exchanged between Myung and former lawmaker Kim between August 2022 and November last year was the price for the nomination.The arrest warrant also states that

have benefited economically from their involvement in the nomination by showing off their close friendship with politicians, including the presidential candidate couple, and undermined democracy.

As for former lawmaker Kim, he said he left most of his parliamentary activities to Myung so that he could actually act like a member of the National Assembly, expressing the need for an arrest investigation, citing concerns about running away.

In the 2022 local elections, two preliminary candidates for Goryeong-gun County in North Gyeongsang Province and Daegu City Council were also held.

He is accused of handing over 240 million won to the Future Korea Research Institute ahead of the election, and the prosecution believes that Myung expected him to work hard on the nomination.

It is expected that the arrest of Myung Tae-kyun and former lawmaker Kim Young-sun will be decided late tonight.

YTN Cha Sang-eun.