A whistleblower in an ongoing corruption investigation on ruling Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung was found dead Tuesday in a motel room in Yangcheon District, western Seoul.
This is the third death of someone related to allegations surrounding the presidential candidate.
The Yangcheon District police found the whistleblower, a man surnamed Lee, at around 8:40 p.m. Tuesday after Lee’s family filed a missing-person report after they lost contact with Lee on Jan. 8. The police conducted an autopsy and are currently investigating the case. No note was found.
Lee, a lawyer known to be a supporter of President Moon Jae-in and a member of the democratic party for over a decade, submitted a recording to a civic group last year as proof that the candidate paid the legal fees for his trial that acquitted him in 2020 by proxy. The recording revealed that another lawyer surnamed Lee, who defended the DP candidate in trials when he was accused of violating the Public Official Election Act in 2018, was given 300 million won ($252,000) in cash and 2 billion won worth of stocks in a listed company.
Before the recording was released, the candidate had said he spent around 250 million won in legal fees for 14 lawyers in total. The civic group, after receiving the recording, filed a report to the prosecutors’ office in October accusing the candidate of spreading of false information. The candidate also countersued the whistleblower for making false accusations.
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