前眾議員金南國在最終聽證會上哭泣並表示不認罪

檢察官要求對韓國民主黨前議員金南國 (Kim Nam-guk) 判處 6 個月監禁，他被指控隱匿近 10 項秘密。

Former Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Kim Nam-guk, who was indicted for hiding nearly 10 billion won ($7.8 million) in virtual currency (coins) and falsely reporting his assets to the National Assembly, faced prosecutors' demand for a six-month prison term at his final hearing on Friday.

韓國前民主黨議員金南國因隱藏近 100 億韓元（780 萬美元）的虛擬貨幣（硬幣）並向國會謊報其資產而被起訴，檢察官要求判處六個月監禁在周五的最後一次聽證會上。

Kim was accused of transferring some of the coin deposits to a bank account to match the total amount of his assets and changing the rest of the deposits into coins to hinder the review of the changes in the assets of the National Assembly's public officials ethics committee.

金被指控將部分硬幣存款轉入銀行帳戶，以匹配其資產總額，並將其餘存款兌換成硬幣，以妨礙國會公職人員倫理委員會對資產變動的審查。

The committee would have examined the process of property formation if the property of the National Assembly increased rapidly and would have made a written request, the prosecution said during the hearing at the Seoul Southern District Court.

檢方在首爾南部地方法院舉行的聽證會上表示，如果國會財產迅速增加，委員會將審查財產形成過程，並提出書面請求。

"In the process, the defendant would have known that he had a large amount of coin deposits," a prosecutor said.

「在此過程中，被告會知道他擁有大量硬幣存款，」一名檢察官說。

The former lawmaker cried at the final hearing and pleaded not guilty.

這位前議員在最終聽證會上哭泣並表示不認罪。

"I was elected as a member of the National Assembly, and I didn't receive anything that was rice cake, bungeoppang and gave me in good faith," Kim said, crying.

「我當選為國會議員，但我沒有收到任何真誠送給我的年糕、糕餅，」金哭著說。

"I knew it was difficult to live pure and clean in politics, but I didn't want to live (illegally) if I didn't do politics."

「我知道在政治中純潔地生活是很困難的，但如果我不從事政治，我就不想（非法）生活。”

Kim is accused of hiding the fact that he made huge profits from coin investments during the National Assembly's property declaration twice in 2021 and 2022.

金正恩被指控在2021年和2022年兩次國會財產申報期間隱瞞了透過硬幣投資獲得巨額利潤的事實。

Prosecutors believe that Kim hid his holdings of about 9.9 billion won in coin deposits during the 2021 property reporting process, reported his total assets to about 1.2 billion won and concealed about 990 million won in the same way in 2022.

檢察官認為，金某在2021年財產申報過程中隱匿了自己持有的約99億韓元的硬幣存款，在2022年申報了自己的總資產約12億韓元，並以同樣的方式隱匿了約9.9億韓元。

Sentencing will be held at 2 p.m. on February 10 next year.

宣判將於明年2月10日下午2點進行。