According to news client reports, in February this year, the South Korean congress passed the “Ming Taijun Special Prosecutor Law” and appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate the suspected false opinion polls conducted by Yoon Seok-youl and his wife and political broker Ming Taijun during the 20th presidential election.
Ming Taijun is suspected of falsifying opinion poll results during the period when the National Force Party was promoting its presidential candidate before the 20th presidential election. This helped push up Yoon Seok-youl’s support rate and made him the presidential candidate of the National Force Party. He then continued to falsify opinion poll results favorable to Yoon Seok-youl during the 20th presidential election in exchange for special treatment to intervene in the nomination of国会议员 candidates.
Recently, the South Korean special prosecutor team reported that they had summoned Yoon Seok-youl and his wife to appear for investigation. Among them, the special prosecutor team accused him of violating the Public Election Law and requested him to appear as a suspect at 10 am on July 29 to receive investigation and assistance.
However, at this sensitive juncture,崔虎, a former Gyeonggi Provincial Council member involved in the case of Yoon Seok-youl’s involvement in the internal nomination of the National Force Party, was found dead today.
The South Korean Gyeonggi-do Police revealed on the 28th that after receiving a call from his family, they found崔虎dead on a hill 75 kilometers south of Seoul in Pyeongtaek City at around 3 am.
Currently, the South Korean police believe that崔虎left his home at around 5 pm on the 27th and committed suicide. No suicide note was found at the scene. The police said, “There is no suspicion of murder at present”, but as the investigation is ongoing, “we cannot provide more details”.
It is reported that during the 2022 local council and local government leadership election at various levels,崔虎was recommended as the candidate for mayor of Pyeongtaek City by the National Force Party. At that time, the National Force Party gave up promoting Kong Zaiguang, the former mayor of Pyeongtaek, and nominated崔虎with poor popularity, which caused strong反弹 within the party. Eventually,崔虎was defeated by Zheng Changshan, a candidate from the Common Democratic Party.
The prosecutor accused Yoon Seok-youl and his wife of violating regulations by promoting “pro-Yoon” (pro-Yoon Seok-youl) figures such as崔虎in the process of recommending candidates for the mayor of Pyeongtaek City, and investigations are ongoing. It is worth noting that the South Korean special prosecutor team said on the 28th that they had not had any contact with崔虎over “summoning or investigation matters”, and had no plan to summon him.