Lee Jae-myung denies any involvement or knowledge of the scheme, which was aimed at promoting a commercial project with North Korea and a visit by Lee to Pyongyang
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s main opposition leader was indicted on Wednesday, June 12, on bribery charges in an alleged scheme to use an underwear maker to transfer funds to North Korea and facilitate a visit to Pyongyang when he was a provincial governor, news reports said. Ssangbangwool is a business group that began as an underwear maker and later expanded to other businesses.Lee has denied any involvement or knowledge of the scheme, which dates to 2019 and 2020 and was aimed at promoting a commercial project with North Korea and a visit by Lee to Pyongyang, which would have burnished his status as a rising political figure.
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