Police on Wednesday referred an independent lawmaker and a former Seoul city councilor to the prosecution following their arrest last week over bribery allegations linked to the 2022 local elections. Rep. Kang Sun-woo, formerly of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), and Kim Kyung were sent to the prosecution on charges of violating political funds and anti-graft laws and others, according to the public crimes division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency. Kim is accused of giving Kang a shopping bag containing 100 million won ($67,800) in cash in January 2022 ahead of the elections in June that year, allegedly in exchange for a DPK nomination for a councilor seat in the capital. The lawmaker served on the party’s candidate nomination committee for the capital at the time. Kim ultimately received the nomination and won the election. Kang has claimed that she did not know the shopping bag contained cash, adding that she returned the money after later discovering it. Police believe Kang had met Kim with advance knowledge of the cash and spent it on a rental deposit. A court issued
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