I wrote that the Tablet PC was a smoking gun in my previous post. The whole scandal, actually, started because one of the Ko Young-tae’s cronies had a pending issue about money owed to a large pharmaceutical manufacturing company as a result of a marketing promotion event.
Lee Seung-han (이승한), formerly General Manager of Mir Foundation, ran a service company that once organized a Marketing promotion for Han-mi Pharmaceutical Company by inviting several hundreds of doctors and nurses to a resort in Gang Won Do.
During the marketing promotion, Lee obtained a data base of tens of thousands of doctors and nurses and provided the data to Han-Mi.
In return, he asked for 30억원 (300,000K won = $US2.7 million). Han-mi refused, saying the requested amount was ridiculously high, and told Lee to take them to court if he wished.
Lee contacted Ko Young-tae (a one time lover of Choi Soon-sil), whom he got to know via Director Cha Un-taek, and asked for help. Lee told Ko that if he could get the money back, he’d give him 5억원 (US$450k).
Ko Young-tae contacted Choi Soon-sil,thinking that Choi had big power associated with President Park. Choi flatly refused. According to reporter Woo Jong-chang, Park had never helped Choi's private business, and Park didn't have any idea that Choi was associating with Ko Young-tae. Nevertheless, the allegation that Choi embezzled money from the non-profit organization also turned out to be false. The money is still there.
During the marketing promotion, Lee obtained a data base of tens of thousands of doctors and nurses and provided the data to Han-Mi.
In return, he asked for 30억원 (300,000K won = $US2.7 million). Han-mi refused, saying the requested amount was ridiculously high, and told Lee to take them to court if he wished.
Lee contacted Ko Young-tae (a one time lover of Choi Soon-sil), whom he got to know via Director Cha Un-taek, and asked for help. Lee told Ko that if he could get the money back, he’d give him 5억원 (US$450k).
Ko Young-tae contacted Choi Soon-sil,thinking that Choi had big power associated with President Park. Choi flatly refused. According to reporter Woo Jong-chang, Park had never helped Choi's private business, and Park didn't have any idea that Choi was associating with Ko Young-tae. Nevertheless, the allegation that Choi embezzled money from the non-profit organization also turned out to be false. The money is still there.
(NB: Woo Jong-chang, a highly respected investigative journalist, has been following this scandal in depth from the beginning, He is also the first to break the news of the controversial phone recordings of Ko and his gang plotting the overthrow of Park since 2015.)
Based on the above facts, he probably had a grudge against Choi. So he approached a journalist for money with the information that Park often asks Choi's opinion on her presidential speeches. The journalist immediately recognized that this is a great opportunity for a news story.
And a high ranking prosecutor who is connected with the opposition party was also approached.
I will post a transcript of phone recordings made by Kim Soo-hyeon (one of Ko’s cronies who apparently didn’t trust Ko so he recorded every conversation he, Ko and others had for future insurance). The voice recordings reveal the plot to frame and remove Park.
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