<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">뉴스타파의 보도가 국제탐사보도언론인협회(ICIJ) 메인 홈페이지를 장식했습니다.</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN> </P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <P></P></SPAN> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">전두환 독재자의 아들 전재국 사진이 큼지막하게 걸렸습니다!</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN> </P> <P></P> <P sizcache="8" sizset="59"><FONT size=3 sizcache="8" sizset="59">ICIJ 홈페이지 - <A class=tx-link href="http://www.icij.org/" target=_blank><U><FONT color=#0066cc>www.icij.org</FONT></U></A></FONT></P> <P sizcache="8" sizset="59"> </P> <P><U></U></P> <P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><U><FONT color=#0066cc><IMG style="FLOAT: none; CLEAR: none" class=txc-image src="http://i1.media.daumcdn.net/uf/image/U01/agora/51AE95944D0CB20009" width=640 actualwidth="640"></FONT></U></P> <P><U></U></P> <P><STRONG></STRONG> </P> <P><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">위 기사를 클릭하면 해당 기사가 나옵니다!</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P><STRONG></STRONG> </P> <P><STRONG></STRONG></P> <P sizcache="8" sizset="60">원문 링크 - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.icij.org/offshore/son-former-korean-president-obtained-secret-offshore-company-amid-familys-tax-evasion"><U><FONT color=#0066cc>http://www.icij.org/offshore/son-former-korean-president-obtained-secret-offshore-company-amid-familys-tax-evasion</FONT></U></A></P> <P><U></U></P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Son of Former Korean President Obtained Secret Offshore Company Amid Family’s Tax Evasion Scandal</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P><IMG style="FLOAT: none; CLEAR: none" class=txc-image src="http://i1.media.daumcdn.net/uf/image/U01/agora/51AE97B64934500037" width=630 actualwidth="630"> </P> <P> </P> <P></P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></P></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> <ADDRESS class=byline rel="sioc:has_creator">By <U style="FONT-FAMILY: null"><FONT color=#0066cc>Yoojung Lee</FONT></U> <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: null" class=date-display-single content="2013-06-04T16:30:00-04:00" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime">June 4, 2013, 4:30 pm</SPAN></ADDRESS> <ADDRESS class=byline rel="sioc:has_creator"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: null" class=date-display-single content="2013-06-04T16:30:00-04:00" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime"></SPAN> </ADDRESS></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> <ADDRESS class=byline rel="sioc:has_creator"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: null" class=date-display-single content="2013-06-04T16:30:00-04:00" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime"></SPAN></ADDRESS></SPAN> <ADDRESS class=byline sizcache="8" sizset="61" rel="sioc:has_creator"><SPAN class=date-display-single content="2013-06-04T16:30:00-04:00" property="dc:date" sizcache="8" sizset="61" datatype="xsd:dateTime"> <P><STRONG style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘Offshore Leaks’ records show oldest son of South Korea’s former president Chun Doo-hwan had British Virgin Islands company.</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></P> <P><STRONG style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.3"></STRONG> </P> <P><STRONG style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.3"></STRONG></P> <P class=p2><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The eldest son of South Korea’s former President Chun Doo-hwan obtained an offshore company in the Caribbean in 2004 amid a tax evasion probe into his younger brother’s alleged involvement with their father’s bribery-fed slush fund.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p2> </P> <P class=p2></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Prosecutors are aggressively seeking the ex-president’s hidden assets in the face of an approaching statute of limitations deadline for his unpaid fine of 167.2 billion won ($149.3 million).</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p2><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chun Jae-kook, the oldest child of the former military strongman, became a director and shareholder of a secret company in the British Virgin Islands with the help of a law firm and an offshore services provider in Singapore, according to records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and reviewed by the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism (KCIJ), also known as Newstapa.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p2> </P> <P class=p2></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chun Jae-kook, CEO of the country’s major publishing house, Sigongsa, did not respond directly to requests for comment for this story.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">He released a statement saying that his offshore company had nothing to do with his father and that it was not created for evading taxes or concealing assets. He explained that his involvement in offshore came about as he moved the money he had for studying and living in the United States to Singapore when he returned to South Korea in 1989.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“I have never taken assets out of the country, and am currently holding no assets abroad,” he said.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dictator’s Ill-gotten Wealth </SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></P> <P class=p1><STRONG></STRONG> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chun Jae-kook’s 2004 acquisition of the offshore company came months after his younger brother, Chun Jae-yong, was arrested on charges of evading taxes on 16.7 billion won, money that the younger Chun said he inherited from his maternal grandfather. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A court ruled that at least 7.3 billion won of the money came from his father’s slush fund.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chun Doo-hwan ruled the country from 1980 to 1988 after seizing power through a military coup in 1979. He was convicted in 1997 of amassing a huge slush fund of hundreds of billions of won in bribes funneled to him by businessmen during his presidency.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The former president was also convicted of charges stemming from the 1979 mutiny and a bloody crackdown in the southern city of Gwangju in May 1980, in which hundreds of pro-democracy protesters were massacred by police.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chun Doo-hwan was initially sentenced to death in 1996 for his role in the Gwangju slaughter, but was later pardoned. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chun Jae-kook, the eldest son, has faced suspicions that he, like his younger brother, may have been associated with the management of his father’s slush fund, but no evidence has been found linking him to the father’s concealed assets.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </P></SPAN> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><IFRAME height=360 src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z-RpIuOx8wk?feature=player_embedded" frameBorder=0 width=640 allowfullscreen></IFRAME></SPAN></SPAN></P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> <P class=p1></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></P></SPAN> <P class=p1><STRONG></STRONG> </P> <P class=p1><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Unpaid fines</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></P> <P class=p1><STRONG></STRONG> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In 1997, the former president was ordered to repay 220 billion won of the ill-gotten gains he was found to have amassed while in office. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">He has paid only a quarter of the total. He still owes 167.2 billion won in outstanding fines.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chun Doo-hwan told a court hearing in 2003 that he had only 290,000 won in savings, claiming that he was unable to pay the rest of the fine.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">His children’s assets, meanwhile, are estimated to be some 200 billion won, and the father has come under fierce public criticism for a lavish lifestyle that includes trips to prestigious golf resorts. He also donated more than 1,000 million won to the Korea Military Academy, his alma mater. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Prosecutors have come under increasing public pressure to track down Chun Doo-hwan’s wealth before the statute of limitations in his case expires in October. They recently launched a special task force to step up their investigation. The deadline in the case can be extended if prosecutors uncover traces of the hidden assets.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Prosecutor General Chae Dong-wook encouraged the newly-established team to use “every possible means” to locate the ex-president’s illegally accumulated fortune.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </P></SPAN> <P class=p1></P> <P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><IMG style="FLOAT: none; CLEAR: none" class=txc-image src="http://i1.media.daumcdn.net/uf/image/U01/agora/51AE988D4D792C0020" width=380 actualwidth="380"></SPAN></SPAN></P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> <P class=p1></P></SPAN> <P class=p1 sizcache="8" sizset="61"> </P> <P class=p1 sizcache="8" sizset="61"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yoojung Lee is a reporter with the </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" sizcache="8" sizset="61"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: null" href="http://newstapa.com/"><U><FONT color=#0066cc>Korean Center for Investigative Journalism</FONT></U></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">.</SPAN></P> <P class=p1 sizcache="8" sizset="61"> </P> <P class=p1></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">ICI</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">J의 메인화면에 기사가</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> 걸렸다는 것은 전세계로 급속하게 타전된다는 것을 의미합니다!</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> <P class=p1><STRONG></STRONG></P></SPAN> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">뉴스타파가 대한민국 언론의 자존심을 세우는군요!</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN></P> <P class=p1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">9</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><STRONG><SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">9% 시민들의 독립언론! 뉴스타파를 응원합니다!</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P></SPAN></ADDRESS>