(Breaking) Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung Acquitted of Defamation Charges in Retrial

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung was acquitted of defamation charges in a retrial held at the Suwon High Court on the 16th.

Governor Lee had been sentenced to a 3 million won fine—a penalty resulting in electoral invalidation—in an appellate trial on charges of publishing false statements related to his older brother's forced hospitalization incident. However, the Supreme Court issued an acquittal decision in July and sent the case back for retrial.