When applying for the KBS president last year, Kim Eui-cheol was accused of obstructing the work of the KBS Board of Directors (recommendation for appointment of a president candidate) by stating that ‘I have never committed the 7 major corruptions (tax evasion, disguise) that excluded the source of public office’. Controversy is expected as the president reportedly rejected the police’s request to “submit interview materials, etc.”
According to the People’s Power Assemblyman Park Seong-joong’s office on the 26th, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Anti-Corruption and Public Crime Investigation Team was transferred to the Yeongdeungpo Police Station in April when the KBS Labor Union and the Public Media Future Vision 100 Years Committee reported Kim Eui-cheol to the Yeongdeungpo Police Station on charges of hierarchical obstruction of business. Recently, to the KBS Board of Directors, “Please submit the ‘Preliminary Questionnaire for Senior Official Candidates’ and ‘Management Plan’ submitted by President Kim Eui-cheol in response to the public contest for the next president in October last year, and ‘interim interview materials’ and ‘meeting minutes’ of the KBS Board of Directors. sent a notice of content.
However, the KBS Board of Directors Secretariat stated, “The ‘Preliminary Questionnaire for Senior Officials Preliminary Candidates’ contains personal information, and ‘interim interview materials’ are subject to non-disclosure under Article 9 (1) 5 of the Act on Information Disclosure of Public Institutions. It is reported that he replied, “It is difficult to provide because it is a matter related to personnel management, which is stipulated as information.”
In this regard, Rep. Park Seong-joong, who is working as a secretary for the people’s power of the National Assembly’s Science, Technology, Information and Broadcasting and Communications Committee, told the Chosun Ilbo, “In general, how many people can refuse the police’s request for investigation data? He is using his position to hide his misconduct.”
He also said, “If President Kim Eui-cheol is honest, there is no reason to refuse to submit data.”
“The board of directors who closed the eyes of ‘Sister Chance’ and ‘Immediate Transfer’ should also be held responsible”
The KBS union, which filed a criminal complaint against President Kim, raised his voice, saying, “The KBS Board of Directors should also be held legally responsible for not admitting President Kim’s ‘transfer under a disguise’ during the document review process, but not admitting it as a cause for disqualification.”
Heo Seong-kwon, chairman of the KBS labor union, said, “Looking at the statements posted on the company’s Covis by the Democratic Party’s recommended directors in November of last year, all of the KBS directors were aware of Kim Eui-cheol’s ‘disguised transfer’ during the document screening process, but during the interview process, It can be confirmed that he passed without asking a question.” He criticized, “The fact that candidate Kim was lying, and yet proposed to President Moon Jae-in to appoint him as the final president, violated the board’s duty to supervise.”
Chairman Huh said, “Not only President Kim, but also the KBS board of directors should take responsibility for this situation and step down.” warned
Ahead of the personnel hearing, ‘disguised transfer/down contract’ all powers revealed
In October last year, President Kim Eui-cheol, who responded to the public contest for the next president of KBS, was selected as the final candidate after document screening, evaluation by the citizen participation group, and an interview with the KBS Board of Directors.
President Kim, who was proposed as the new president on the 27th of the same month, was exposed to the fact that five days before the National Assembly’s personnel hearing, he received an apartment in Seoul by ‘disguised transfer’ and wrote a ‘down contract’ during the apartment sale process to reduce the registration tax. .
According to data submitted to the National Assembly by KBS, President Kim lived in Namdong-gu, Incheon in 1993 and moved to the address of his older sister in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul. President Kim, who received an apartment in Daerim-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul the following year, lived there for 8 years from 1997.
When President Kim sold the apartment in 2004, he wrote a lower price than the actual sale price to reduce the amount of tax paid. At the time, the actual transaction price was 400 million won, but President Kim reported only 139 million won, which is the standard market price. Accordingly, he had to pay 22.4 million won, but in reality, he paid only 7,784,000 won, resulting in a difference of 14.61 million won in registration tax.
“Due to childcare, ‘disguised transfer’… ‘down contract’ before the introduction of ‘actual transaction price reporting system'”
When this fact was revealed, President Kim apologized through explanatory materials, saying, “It was a long time ago and it was a time when laws and systems were insufficient, but I am deeply reflecting.” “I sincerely apologize for causing concern to the people.”
President Kim said, “After giving birth to my first child in 1991, my wife was under a lot of stress as she had difficulties in raising children. “I had to leave Seoul for a while due to the sudden difficulties of childcare, and I moved into my sister’s house in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul for two years under the guise of a momentary mistake in order to maintain my Seoul apartment subscription qualification.”
Regarding the controversy over the under-reporting of the purchase price of apartments, President Kim acknowledged his mistake, saying, “It happened before the real estate transaction reporting system was introduced in 2006, but it was a negligence of not complying with the taxation principle.”