The Supreme Public Prosecutors' Central Investigation Department announced Friday that the creator of the "media files," which contained media reforms to achieve re-election of the government found at the residence of former Kim Dae-jung Peace Foundation for Asia-Pacific Region standing director Lee Su-dong, had been narrowed down to either a Peace Foundation official, or a non-central media executive.
One of the so-called "media files" framing reform of major newspapers in Seoul region contains an analysis of each newspaper's editorial tone, and another document about media companies in Gwangju region describes their detailed financial status and owners' corruption cases, said the prosecution.
In other news, the prosecution said that it has attained testimony that an executive official at the Ministry of National Defense's procurement headquarters pressured a construction company, which won a military facility relocation order, to subcontract electrical work to a company named S, which bribed Kim Seong-hwan, a close confidant of the president's second son Kim Hong-up, with some W130 million. Therefore, the prosecution is investigating possibility that Kim Seong-hwan lobbied to the executives at the MND through Hong-up.
(An Seok-bae, sbahn@chosun.com)
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