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Actor Park Sung-woong was adopted as a witness in a trial on perjury charges of Lim Sung-geun, former 1st Marine Corps Division commander.
According to News 1, the Seoul Central District Court's Criminal Agreement Department 22 (Chief Judge Cho Hyung-woo) held a second trial preparation date for former division commander Lim, who was indicted on charges of violating the Act on Testimony and Appraisal at the National Assembly on the 28th.
The special prosecutor's team (special prosecutor Lee Myung-hyun) said it would apply for Park Sung-woong as a witness, and the court accepted it. Park Sung-woong is expected to be called as a witness to confirm the friendship between Lim and Lee Jong-ho, former CEO of Black Pearl Invest.
Lee is suspected of having contacted government officials in Yoon Suk Yeol and asked for Lim's life based on his relationship with Kim Gun-hee's account in the Deutsche Motors stock price manipulation case.
Earlier in September last year, Park Sung-woong was investigated by the independent counsel team as a reference in connection with the suspicion of lobbying for the life of former division commander Lim. At the time, Park Sung-woong stated to the effect that he had eaten with his close singer A, former CEO Lee, and former division commander Lim at a bar in Gangnam in August 2022. At the time, he was quoted as saying, "I knew the former representative Lee, and I saw the former division commander Lim for the first time on the spot."
Lim has maintained that former representative Lee has no one-sided knowledge. "I don't know such people at all," he said at a parliamentary audit of the National Assembly Judiciary Committee in October last year. "If it's perjury, I'll definitely be punished."
The court decided to end the trial preparation process and start a formal trial on March 11. At the first hearing, witnesses will be questioned against Marine Corps officials, and Park will be summoned on March 25.
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