On Monday, Kim held a fresh press conference together with the Catholic Priests' Association for Justice at Jeki-dong Catholic Church in Seoul. "While working for Samsung, I took care of scores of senior public prosecutors,” he said. He claimed he delivered between W5 million (US$1=W908) and tens of millions of won every Lunar New Year's Day, Chuseok and during summer vacation.

Kim Yong-chul, a former director of Samsung Group's legal department, wipes his face during a press conference at Jeki-dong Catholic Church in Dongdaemun, Seoul on Monday afternoon arranged by the Catholic Priests' Association for Justice./Newsis

He named no names but said, "I hope that a public opportunity will come” when he would. But he added, “Public prosecutors are a small group managed by Samsung. The Ministry of Finance and Economy and the National Tax Service, with which Samsung shares interests, are much bigger groups managed by Samsung." That suggests the company delivered still more money to senior officials at the ministry and the NTS than to senior prosecutors.

He said that the source of the bribes were slush funds raised by Samsung's affiliates. "Samsung holds many accounts in the borrowed names of executives and staff that contain slush funds. I still have a list of some Samsung executives who hold such accounts," he added.

A former prosecutor himself, Kim left Samsung after working there as an executive for financial affairs and head of legal department at Samsung Restructuring Office from 1997 until 2004. He first came clean about the alleged slush funds through the Catholic organization on Oct. 29.

Samsung denied the allegations, saying it neither bribed prosecutors or judges nor ordered Kim to do such a thing.

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