You Are Defended - Chapter 595



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Episode 595

[Wooshin, organ trafficking, slush funds, murder…Wooshin announces his position]

[Revealing a crime… What will be the impact?]

[The size of Ko Sang-jun’s slush fund will exceed hundreds of billions]

[Unprecedented Large-Scale Crime by Large Corporations… What Will Be the Punishment?]

[Unavoidable to state position on Wooshin, organ trafficking, slush funds, and murder]

[Children Victims of Attempted Organ Trafficking, Another C Daycare Center?]

[What happened to the political funds received by the late Lee Jeong-chan?]

[Attempted Long-Term Transaction, What are the Punishment Regulations?]

“Oh, I’m going to burn all the meat while reading the article.”

Everyone sitting around the restaurant was busy looking at their phones rather than eating the meat.

But when I think about how much they are usually absorbed in reading articles and comments, today they really don’t have time to eat meat.

There are three main things we revealed in this broadcast.

1. The owner of the hospital site where the long-term trading took place is RND.

2. But that RND belongs to Ko Sang-jun.

3. In the past, when there was a risk of slush funds being stolen, Ko Sang-jun tried to kill me but failed.

They are all at the level of nuclear bombs.

The police quickly formed an investigation team due to the organized organ trafficking case, and as it was a case that was difficult to find in Korea, it attracted a lot of attention.

But the one behind it is said to be a large corporation called Wooshin, the number one conglomerate in our country.

Even at a time when the incident at Angel’s House where I was almost murdered became a hot topic, they are saying that even that was Ko Sang-jun’s doing.

What’s shocking is not that I was the victim, but that the chairman of a large corporation, Wooshin, tried to hire a lawyer to handle the slush fund for fear of it being stolen.

At this point, it’s strange to be quiet.

“Eat meat! What if you order expensive meat and don’t eat it?”

Kim Jung-woo quickly picked up the tongs and began distributing them on everyone’s plates.

Since it was right after the broadcast, he came into the room out of fear of being noticed by others, and he also declined the service of the staff who offered to grill him meat, so the only one who cared about the meat was Kim Jung-woo.

“Reporters must be confused too. It must be difficult to figure out what topics to focus on when writing articles.”

Kim Jeong-woo, who had finished distributing the meat, said while pulling the salt bowl closer.

“That’s true. If it were me, I would first emphasize the fact that Wooshin was behind the organ trading.”

Only then did Choi Jong-hyun put down his phone and pick up his chopsticks.

“Me too. As for the slush funds, the Ministry of Economy will chew them out.”

“But I wonder how the Iljoong Ilbo will turn out. It will be hard to hold out without writing articles in this situation.”

“Right now, only the older brother in Lee Jeong-chan’s cell phone is revealed to be Ko Sang-jun, but there is a younger brother in the Iljoong Ilbo. He must be trembling in fear.”

Kim Jung-woo laughed heartily.

The two people who had a lot of ill feelings toward the Ilbo had quite a refreshing expression on their faces.

“Should I contact Seyun?”

“Se-yeon must be out of her mind right now. She must be furious because she received instructions to stop writing articles carelessly. I think she must have received a message.”

Kim Jung-woo picked up his cell phone, which he had put down for a moment, while chewing his meat.

And then he chuckled and started reading the message.

“Why aren’t you replying, Senior Choi? Oppa, aren’t you with that Senior Choi right now? Everyone’s celebrating? Am I the only one who’s upset? Oh, I’m so pissed. You can’t even write articles as you please. I’m going to quit my job. Damn Iljoong Ilbo! But who is your little brother? I feel like he’s someone from our company. He’s the chairman, right? Oppa, why aren’t you replying? Cha Joo-han and Kang Min-jae aren’t answering my calls either. This is just too much, really. … … That’s what he said.”

While I was checking the news, I saw a notification that I had a message from Yoon Se-yeon, but I didn’t read it.

“Seyeon is having a hard time.”

“I wanted to somehow link them up because I was sick of what the Iljoong Ilbo kids were doing. It worked out well. I hated seeing them hiding like loaches every time they got cursed at. Now, they’ve naturally laid the groundwork.”

Choi Jong-hyun looked genuinely happy.

Indeed, as he said, the Ilbo has tried its best to avoid reporting unfavorable to Wooshin or has only reported in a way that strangely distorts the truth in a way that is favorable to Wooshin, and so far there has been no major corruption that has been revealed to the public.

But at the point when Lee Jeong-chan’s hidden cell phone was revealed, even if he was covered up by Ko Sang-jun and received less criticism, he would have been in and out of the prosecution.

“Lee Se-hyung did it. Right? I never thought of that.”

“That’s true.”

Lee Se-hyung, Lee Jeong-chan’s second son.

He is a kind of first-class contributor who allowed us to obtain evidence that KDL Company and L&B were behind Ko Sang-jun’s backing.

If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have been able to get my hands on Lee Jeong-chan’s cell phone.

The timing was good too.

I met Lee Se-hyung right after the broadcast announcement was made.

* * *

─Attorney, there’s a call at your office.

It was about 10 minutes after the notice was posted.

About 4 hours left until the broadcast starts.

Oh, I got a call from the office manager.

Behind his voice, people could be heard shouting at him to come and look at the toys.

I said I went to the mart to buy some things for So-eun earlier, but it seemed like it was still there.

Since I was out of the office, I was answering the CEO’s phone call from Manager Oh’s cell phone, and it seemed like he answered the call and contacted me right away.

“What call did you get?”

─I just sent your number to the lawyer. It’s Lee Se-hyung. He said he wanted to meet you.

“Is this the Lee Se-hyung I know?”

─That’s right. He’s Lee Jeong-chan’s second son.

“Did you call me directly?”

─Yes. I heard you were released from prison three months ago.

Lee Se-hyung, who once pretended to be paraplegic and received special treatment such as admission to a prestigious university through a special admission process and exemption from military service, and committed a national fraud to improve the image of his father, Lee Jeong-chan, was imprisoned after the truth was exposed.

But is the sentence over already?

“Okay, I’ll contact you.”

I immediately called the number that Manager Oh had sent me.

─Hello.

“This is Cha Ju-han.”

─As you may have heard, this is Lee Se-hyung. It’s been a while.

“What’s going on?”

─Let’s meet up.

“What’s the matter?”

─Don’t be so sharp. When you meet him, you’ll be glad you did.

Lee Se-hyung spoke quite arrogantly.

I wasn’t being pointy.

It was originally made like this.

“I think we need to know the details to decide whether or not to meet. I’m a bit busy these days.”

─I know. I just contacted you because I thought you were busy. You’re going to broadcast today, right? Before that, I have something to give you. You’ll need it.

I frowned.

Lee Se-hyung had already told me about Lee Jeong-chan’s pocket watch, and I came this far thanks to the information contained in it.

But you have more to give?

I was suspicious.

I was also worried that if we let our guard down at times like this, someone else might get hurt.

“Come to our office.”

─Let people come and go… … . This must be quite tempting. If you come out like this, you’ll regret it later?

“Considering that you contacted me at this time, it seems like it was information from between Wooshin and former CEO Lee Jung-chan. There’s no way Lee Se-hyung would give it to me. As I said before, isn’t he trying to use me to get revenge on Ko Sang-jun, who killed former CEO Lee Jung-chan? I think the one who feels sorry is Lee Se-hyung.”

─… … .

“Am I wrong?”

─Can I meet you at the office now?

“yes.”

─It takes 30 minutes.

Lee Se-hyung responded curtly and hung up the phone.

And I headed to the office with Taeshik.

In the meantime, I looked up when Lee Se-hyung was released from prison, but after Lee Jeong-chan died, interest in Lee Se-hyung also decreased, so there weren’t many articles about him recently.

Still, the few articles I found said he was on the list for parole and had been living in seclusion at home since his release.

“… … .”

I waited for about 10 minutes.

Lee Se-hyung hung up the phone as he had said and arrived at the office 30 minutes later.

“I won’t go into detail as it might be awkward for both of us. What’s your business?”

Lee Se-hyung held the bag he was carrying tightly and remained silent for a while.

“… … The KDL Company and L&B thing. Did you find it in the pocket watch I told you about when you came to see me?”

“you’re right.”

“When you ended the broadcast without being able to properly use that enormous evidence, I thought I had expected too much from you.”

I remember what Lee Se-hyung said to me at that time.

[Please, please punish Wooshin. Kill all the bastards who made our father like that. … … I don’t think there’s anyone else who can punish Wooshin except you guys.]

The SD card left behind by Lee Jeong-chan contained information related to KDL Company, but no information on L&B.

We personally found out that L&B is a company owned by Ko Sang-jun when we visited Liechtenstein, where KDL Company is located.

And that was the only thing we couldn’t reveal on the air at that time.

It was absurd to speak as if he had provided it himself, but strictly speaking, if it weren’t for the KDL Company information left behind by Lee Jeong-chan, I wouldn’t have been able to find that information, so I decided not to point it out.

“I thought, ‘I should have just hit on a broadcasting station or a newspaper, or even the prosecution or the Liberty Justice Party.’ I thought, ‘I picked the wrong person.’”

“I’m not sitting here right now to listen to Mr. Lee Se-hyung’s reviews.”

“I know! Shit, I know. Anyway, after the news about long-term trading today, I saw you guys put up a broadcast notice and I thought you weren’t just sucking your fingers all this time, so I decided to trust you one more time. That’s why I’m giving it to you.”

What on earth are you trying to give me by taking all this time?

Just because Lee Jeong-chan is dead, his wrongdoings don’t disappear.

I don’t think either of you decided to give me the information with the intention of deeply reflecting on it.

Lee Jeong-chan was planning to blow himself up, thinking that he could not die alone after being defeated by Woo Shin and that his political career was over, and Lee Se-hyung was planning to take revenge after Lee Jeong-chan was murdered.

It’s true that I feel a kind of sympathy and pity for him for being killed by Ushin, but that’s where it ends.

I felt uncomfortable with Lee Se-hyung’s unnecessary talk, as if he wanted to be re-evaluated or to gain sympathy.

“this.”

Lee Se-hyung took out his feature phone from his bag and placed it on the table.

“What is it?”

“I found it in my father’s study while I was packing to move after I was released from prison. It’s not that I didn’t give it to you because I wanted to see your ashes, I just didn’t know they were there at the time so I couldn’t give it to you.”

“I asked, ‘What is this?’”

“This is the cell phone my father used while he was alive. The registered owner is someone else. He used it to contact people like Woo Shin Go Sang-jun and Yoon Young-kwan of Iljoong Ilbo.”

As I tried to pick up my phone, Lee Se-hyung covered it with his palm before I could.

“Is the long-term trading case really going to blow up?”

“Why do you ask that?”

“Because if it really blows up, Ko Sang-jun will be truly finished. If Ko Sang-jun is not truly finished, I can’t give you this phone. From your perspective, your father is already dead, so you probably think that nothing will change even if more wrongdoings are revealed. He was a corrupt politician anyway, so you might wonder why a few more blows will bring so much shame. But that’s not me. I want to kill Ko Sang-jun, so I’m willing to take the risk of smearing my father’s face, who is already dead. I think my father will rest in peace if he sees Ko Sang-jun screwed.”

[truth]

Lee Se-hyung’s voice, which spoke with emphasis on each word, was now trembling.

My eyes turned red and I shed a few tears.

It seems certain that he was gritting his teeth while in prison.

“Do you have any other intentions?”

“No. I just want to see Ko Sang-jun get screwed. But if I make this much of a decision to hand over my phone and fail… … I don’t think that’s acceptable.”

[truth]

Considering his track record of committing national fraud, I wondered if he was just putting on a show, but seeing as he continues to be judged as truthful, there is no room for doubt.

“I won’t fail. I’m risking my life doing this.”

As I answered, Lee Se-hyung twitched the hand that was holding the cell phone.

“And the reason I risked my life is because Ko Sang-jun is a person who should disappear from this society. I also think that former representative Lee Jeong-chan should disappear from this society. If there are any corruptions that are not yet known to the public, they should be made known and properly evaluated.”

“Your personality is a mess too. Are you saying that now?”

Lee Se-hyung laughed in vain as if he was dumbfounded.

“But when I say that he should disappear, I don’t mean that he should die in that manner. He should have been punished according to the law. I sincerely regret that he died in that manner at the hands of Ko Sang-jun.”

“… … .”

“Lee Se-hyung said it himself. He said it knowing that it would smear former representative Lee Jeong-chan’s face. I will somehow isolate Ko Sang-jun from this society. However, the method may not be very satisfying to Lee Se-hyung. I am not trying to kill or torture Ko Sang-jun.”

“……i know.”

“Does that not matter? I am not taking revenge on behalf of Mr. Lee Se-hyung. If that is what you are expecting, I will not accept this. The result may not be satisfactory considering the risk of smearing former representative Lee Jeong-chan’s face.”

Lee Se-hyung hesitated for a moment.

But the hesitation didn’t last long.

“It doesn’t matter. But I can promise you one thing. I promise that I will do my best to make sure that Ko Sang-jun is punished for what he did.”

“Of course it will.”

“Okay then.”

Lee Se-hyung said, pushing his cell phone in front of me.

And then he jumped up.

“I’ll go now.”

He snatched up his bag and ran out of the office.

I stared blankly at my cell phone lying on the table with my arms crossed.

“But, lawyer.”

At that moment, Taesik, who had been standing silently, suddenly opened his mouth.

“why.”

“I don’t know what you heard, but it was like Nodaji. Why did you keep scaring Lee Se-hyung when he was scared?”

That scared you, huh?

I said that because it would be difficult if Lee Se-hyung had strange expectations of me.

I also have some personal feelings toward Ko Sang-jun.

I think it would be excessive for Ko Sang-jun to be punished only to the extent prescribed by law.

I also think that our country’s sentencing standards need to change.

Still, isn’t it impossible to make people realize that evildoers should be punished beyond what is prescribed by law?

“If Lee Se-hyung listens to the lawyer and doesn’t give me the phone, it’ll be difficult.”

“Even if Lee Se-hyung didn’t give it to me, I found out that there was evidence like that. It doesn’t matter because I can just seize and search it and get it.”

I answered briefly, grabbed my phone, and stood up.

Then Taesik looked at me blankly.

“What are you doing? Let’s go. Let’s gather everyone and open it together.”

As I walked out of the office and fiddled with the security system, Taeshik muttered and headed for the elevator.

“… … If you look closely, he’s the biggest thug.”

Do you think I can’t hear you?

The voice was a bit loud for something like that, but I hope it’s just my mood.