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이재명 대통령이 13일 차명 부동산·대출 의혹을 받은 오광수 민정수석 사의를 받아들였다고 대통령실이 전했다. 새 정부 출범 이후 첫 고위직 낙마 사례다.
강유정 대변인은 이날 오전 용산 대통령실 브리핑에서 "오 수석이 어젯밤 이 대통령에게 사의를 표했다"며 "이 대통령은 공직기강 확립·인사검증을 담당하는 민정수석 중요성을 두루 감안해 사의를 받아들였다"고 밝혔다.
그러면서 "이 대통령 사법개혁 의지·국정철학을 깊이 이해하고 이에 발맞춰 가는 인사로 조속한 시일 내 차기 민정수석을 임명 예정"이라고 덧붙였다.
지난 8일 우상호 정무수석·이규연 홍보소통수석 등과 함께 지난 8일 임명된 오 수석은 과거 검사 시절 친구를 통해 아내 부동산을 차명 관리하고, 지난 2007년 10억대 차명 대출을 받았다는 의혹이 제기되는 등 임명 후 재산 관련 문제가 잇따라 제기돼 도덕성 논란에 휩싸였었다.
이와 관련 국민의힘 소속 이종배 서울시의원은 지난 12일 오 수석을 금융실명법 위반·사기·조세범 처벌법 위반·위계에 의한 업무방해 혐의로 서울중앙지검에 고발했다.
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Office of the President: "President Lee accepts resignation of Senior Presidential Secretary for Civil Affairs Oh Kwang-soo amid suspicions of real estate and loans under false names"
The day before, Kang Yoo-jung announced her resignation, saying, "I plan to appoint the next Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs as soon as possible, with a deep understanding of the President's will for judicial reform and national administration philosophy and a person who will follow suit." People's Power Seoul City Council member Lee Jong-bae files a complaint against Senior Secretary Oh with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office for violating the Financial Transaction Real-Name Act, fraud, tax crimes punishment act, and obstruction of business by hierarchy.
-kihong Kim reporter
President Lee Jae-myung accepted the resignation of Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs Oh Kwang-soo, who is suspected of real estate and loans under false pretenses, the presidential office reported on the 13th. This is the first case of a high-ranking official being dismissed since the launch of the new government.
At a briefing at the presidential office in Yongsan that morning, Spokesperson Kang Yoo-jung said, "Senior Secretary Oh tendered his resignation to President Lee last night," and "President Lee accepted the resignation, fully considering the importance of the Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs, who is in charge of establishing public service discipline and verifying personnel."
She added, "We plan to appoint the next Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs as soon as possible, as someone who deeply understands President Lee's will for judicial reform and his philosophy of state administration and is in line with it."
Chief Oh, who was appointed on the 8th along with Senior Secretary for Political Affairs Woo Sang-ho and Senior Secretary for Public Relations Lee Gyu-yeon, was embroiled in controversy over his morality after his appointment due to a series of issues related to his assets, including allegations that he managed his wife's real estate in another person's name through a friend while he was a prosecutor and received a loan worth 1 billion won in another person's name in 2007.
In relation to this, Seoul City Council member Lee Jong-bae, a member of the People's Power Party, filed a complaint against Chief Oh with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on the 12th on charges of violating the Financial Transaction Real-Name Act, fraud, tax evasion punishment law, and obstruction of business by hierarchy.
