A yellow sticker reading “search and seizure site” is posted in front of New Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok’s home in Nowon-gu, Seoul, on Monday morning. (Yonhap)
A yellow sticker reading “search and seizure site” is posted in front of New Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok’s home in Nowon-gu, Seoul, on Monday morning. (Yonhap)

Investigators head toward New Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok’s home in Nowon-gu, Seoul, on Monday. (Yonhap)
Investigators head toward New Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok’s home in Nowon-gu, Seoul, on Monday. (Yonhap)

Reporters wait outside Lee Jun-seok’s parliamentary office at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on Monday, as prosecutors raid the New Reform Party leader’s home and office in connection with an investigation into allegations involving former first lady Kim Keon Hee. (Yonhap)
Reporters wait outside Lee Jun-seok’s parliamentary office at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on Monday, as prosecutors raid the New Reform Party leader’s home and office in connection with an investigation into allegations involving former first lady Kim Keon Hee. (Yonhap)

Prosecutors from a special team investigating allegations involving former first lady Kim Keon Hee on Monday carried out a raid on the home and office of Lee Jun-seok, leader of the minor New Reform Party.

The raids come just one day after Lee was elected leader of the New Reform Party in an uncontested race, securing 98 percent of the vote.

Currently, Lee is a reference witness in an election interference case involving former First Lady Kim, wife of ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol.

The case centers on claims that she played a role in influencing the ruling People Power Party’s candidate selections for the 2022 and 2024 parliamentary elections.

Investigators are looking into whether Lee met with pollster Myung Tae-kyun and former lawmaker Kim Young-sun before the April 2024 general election, to determine whether the three discussed a deal in which Kim would reveal the former First Lady’s alleged election meddling in return for a proportional seat nomination from the New Reform Party.


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