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Prosecutor said that they obtained new evidence that Samsung Group gave the Grand National Party an additional W17 billion besides the W15.2 billion confirmed earlier. The prosecutors are now conducting an investigation into this allegation. With this, Samsung gave W32.2 billion to the GDP alone during the last presidential election, making Samsung the worst illegal funding provider amongst all the other firms in the nation. The illegal electoral funds that the GNP received have now come out to around W80 billion in total.
We've grown tired of trying to figure out just how much illegal campaign money the GNP took. If the opposition party received bonds worth W17 billion and they were able to launder the money in the exchange market, then obviously someone in the party's financial sector might have detected such transactions. Everyone, however, kept quiet about it. Although this was the case, the GNP complained about the balance of the prosecutor's investigation and called up the prosecutor general at a hearing to scold him vehemently. We're left speechless.
With this all being the case, what has the GNP been talking about, claiming that the exact total of its illegal campaign funds were known? And what where they talking about when they complained that a party leader at the time, since arrested, was being falsely accused? We're simply dumbfounded.
The illegal electoral funds from the "Big 4" conglomerates to the GNP and Roh election campaigns totaled "W67.2 billion to nil," respectively. The opposition party has lost the right to even talk about the fairness issue. The GNP has reached a point where the party has to consider disbanding in order to overcome the situation.
The Samsung Group is also ridiculous. W32.2 billion is way over U.S $26 million, and if such a scandal had occurred in other country, no firm on the planet could have survived after funneling money to politicians like that. How can Samsung enjoy its position as the world's fifth biggest brand name when it runs itself in such a pre-modern way? Citizens are terrified wondering when the company will collapse.
The question is this. What secrets did Samsung want concealed that pushed them to give so much money during the last presidential election? It must be something Samsung wanted to avoid. It must have had been Samsung's fatal weakness.
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