During the trial preparation date, Kim Su-hyun, the former Blue House policy chief who is accused of manipulating national statistics, denied the allegations along with 11 other defendants, including Kim Sang-jo, former Blue House policy chief, and Kim Hyun-mi, former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The defense attorneys appeared in court for the trial preparation date at the Daejeon District Court, as the defendants were not obligated to attend. The court decided to separate the defendants by charges and determine the future trial procedure after considering opinions from both the prosecution and the defendants’ legal representatives. Furthermore, to allow sufficient time for the defendants to review the evidence, the next trial preparation date was scheduled for August 14 at 3 p.m., requesting detailed arguments regarding the charges prior to that date.
The defendants are accused of exerting undue pressure on the Korea Real Estate Institute from 2018 for about four years, manipulating the “weekly housing price fluctuation rate” 125 times, and wrongfully intervening in the preparation of employment and income-related statistics.
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