Lee Sang-deuk (
Korean: 이상득; born November 29, 1935) is a South Korean politician and businessman. He is well known as the older brother of the former South Korean president,
Lee Myung-bak. He was a member of the conservative
Saenuri Party in the
National Assembly. He was convicted of bribery in 2013, and sentenced to a prison sentence of one year and two months.[1]
Controversies
He is alleged to be the ringleader of the illegal political-level investigation towards civilian institutions and individuals by the ruling party, the Grand National Party.[2]
During the controversial passing of the year 2011 budget bill, he is alleged to obtain an unusually enormous funding for his representative area,
Pohang.[3] Political critics call this act a capitalization of "big brother" budget due to his close kinship ties with Lee Myung-bak.
Democratic Party assembly leader, Park Ji-weon, criticized this act as contributing to the unbalanced and unfair budget distribution all across South Korea.
He possessed a piece of land in secret between 1995 and 2003 under secret deal with Samho, a Korean company, and the
National Intelligence Service.[5]
Allegations of bribery
A personal aide of Lee Sang-deuk was arrested for receiving briberies that involved
Lee Kuk-chul, chairman of the shipbuilding company, SLS Group.[6][7]
Lee later declared that the 700 million won in secretary's bank account is officially under his ownership.[8]