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Prosecutors have sought a three-year prison sentence for main opposition Democratic Party(DP) leader Lee Jae-myung for asking a witness at his trial to give false testimony.
The prosecution made the request on Monday to the Seoul Central District Court.
Lee is suspected of requesting Kim Jin-seong, an aide of then-Seongnam Mayor Kim Byung-ryang, to give a false testimony in a trial in late 2018 over his alleged impersonation of a prosecutor.
The aide proceeded to comply in February 2019, which allegedly helped win Lee’s acquittal the following year, a move that later earned Kim an indictment for perjury.
Prosecutors requested the court to sentence Kim to ten months in prison.