Is 80 Million More Than 10%?
A close aide of an Uri Party leader confessed yesterday to accepting illegal contributions from a businessman connected to the scandal over the Korea National Railroad’s botched Russian oil deal, prosecutors announced.
The aide was identified only as Mr. Ji and as a close assistant to Uri Assemblyman Lee Kwang-jae, who is a former senior Blue House official and a close associate of President Roh Moo-hyun.
Mr. Ji confessed, prosecution sources said, that he accepted 80 million ($80,000) from Jeon dae-wol, a private investor in the oil deal, and used part of the sum in Mr. Lee’s campaign in last April’s legislative elections.
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