On Thursday, September 25th, 2008, our father was extradited from the Federal Police Station in São Paulo to South Korea.
On Saturday, September 27th 2008, he arrived to the Seoul Correction Center and has been incarcerated since then.
He is a VICTIM of a global corporation, who's trying to CONCEAL the TRUTH.
Please, watch the video: "SOS JJ JUSTICE: In the Name of Our Father, Evidences and Facts"
at
www.youtube.com/jeonjustice
Helps us SPREAD this injustice for JUSTICE!
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
The Jeon Sisters
(Jeniffer, Suely and Bonnie)
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
HELP US SAVE OUR FATHER'S LIFE
Please read the following article from BBC:
Korean President Pardons Hyundai's Boss
--> From this article, you will EXPLICITLY SEE why MY FATHER WILL DIE in SOUTH KOREA.
How can CRIMES BE PARDONED?
What is JUSTICE for?
Can money really buy everything?
Help us SAVE OUR FATHER'S LIFE. Help us SAVE JUSTICE.
Korean President Pardons Hyundai's Boss
--> From this article, you will EXPLICITLY SEE why MY FATHER WILL DIE in SOUTH KOREA.
How can CRIMES BE PARDONED?
What is JUSTICE for?
Can money really buy everything?
Help us SAVE OUR FATHER'S LIFE. Help us SAVE JUSTICE.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Save Life. Save Justice. Save Humanity
HELP my family save my father's life.
Tell you family and friends about the injustice of a multinational corporation.
Support and Save JUSTICE.
Money does not rule the world. Justice and Humanity must prevail.
Thank you for your support!
Cordially,
The
Jeon Sisters
(Jeniffer, Suely, and Bonnie)
Tell you family and friends about the injustice of a multinational corporation.
Support and Save JUSTICE.
Money does not rule the world. Justice and Humanity must prevail.
Thank you for your support!
Cordially,
The
Jeon Sisters
(Jeniffer, Suely, and Bonnie)
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Family Story...
To Whom It May Concern,
RE: Hardships Caused by Corporate Manipulation
My name is Suely Jeon. If you knew me, you’ll see that I’m just an ordinary student, trying to be an active member of the community by getting involved in various programs and volunteering. I come from a Korean family, but I was born and raised for most of my life in Brazil. Many people I meet are surprised by this combination and admire the fact my parents have made my sisters and I learn our Korean heritage as well as our birth country’s customs.
My parents are Chong Jin Jeon and Jin Sook Lee. These names might not sound familiar, but if you Google my father’s name, you will find on the first hit that he is one of the “Wanted” person in the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol). No one, except my family, knows this part of me. I have never shared this side of mine, my family’s story, to anyone because I didn’t know how to say it or from where to start it. I didn’t know how people would react to it. And thus, since I am no spokesperson, I will write the story of my family and reveal to you the heart-breaking realities of the past ten years that I have kept from sharing.
It’s been ten years since my mom, sisters, and I have lived with my father. It’s been ten years since my father has been treated like a human with rights. Over the past ten years, my father’s story has been told by lawyers, policemen, reporters and circulated around in rumors. He’s story has been covered in two separate, distant countries—Brazil and Korea. The first hit I’ve mentioned in the Google results is one of those stories. These stories are crafted lies that have caused the forceful separation in my immediate family. These fabrications have caused emotional pain, mental and physical suffering, as well as the destruction of my entire family.
My father is the youngest son out of five children. His family moved to Brazil when he was twelve years old. At a young age, he had become the door-to-door salesman, selling clothes that his parents, sisters, and brothers had made. Since then, he began developing his work in the clothing industry, and soon evolved to become the manager of his own store. He met my mother, who was also an immigrant from Korea, and had three daughters: Jeniffer, Bonnie, and I.
During his marriage, my father’s family decided to move to the United States, but he chose to stay and continue his life in Brazil. My father worked with my mother’s family, teaching her younger brothers the business of managing a clothing retail store. His early work experience allowed him to further expand in the business, which provided the opportunity for my uncles to become managers of the attire stores, and for my father to explore in a different industry.
In 1993, my father began working in the automobile industry and his ability to speak both Portuguese and Korean had become an asset in providing a bridge in the business relationship between Asia Motors do Brasil (Brazil) and Kia/Asia Motor Corporation (South Korea). His efforts opened many trade opportunities, and he was acknowledged for his work. Once again, my father had used his early work experience to expand further and to learn more about commerce.
My father was not an executive or any high-ranking personnel, but as a facilitator/translator he worked among the executive workforce assisting their tasks. Many of the stories written about my father call him a “corporate fraud”, but how could he have cheated if he doesn’t have the power or the right to make decisions at a corporate level? None of the reporters, who have created this fake new character of my father, have called him for an interview or asked him what his stance was. As a reporter, how could you not use the primary source, the person who your article is written about? What are interviews for? I guess those reporters knew that their stories were fictitious and that interviewing my father would not provide the information that these biases were seeking for.
One of the reasons why I kept my father’s and family story for so long was because the people, who have read the false media jargon, and those who knew my father before the delusive extravaganza, reacted as if those stories were true! They began pointing fingers at my family and turning their backs away, treating us with repulsion.
In January 2003, my grandmother passed away from liver cancer. She was my father’s mom, who was always proud of him and could never stop describing her appreciation for his constant effort of always keeping her fulfilled. She passed away in the midst of the lies and accusations. She did not survive to see her innocent son, claiming his name back without any dishonest association. My father blames himself to be the reason of her death. He believes the allegations against him had caused her too much pain and developed to a physical illness.
When my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer in late 2001, my father, mother, sisters and I couldn’t even visit her. Our freedom had become limited, as my father was increasingly known to be a bandit. For ten years now, my family has been fighting for his innocence, for his right and freedom, for our right and liberty to be a family once again. It’s been almost ten years since I’ve visited my cousins and my dad’s family in the United States. I have never seen my cousin Kathy, who is now seven years old. I still haven’t visited my grandmother’s graveyard to show her the respect she deserves. One of the most devastating moments during these years of agony was when my father couldn’t attend his own mother’s funeral. Many years had already passed by since my father has seen his mother, and he still wasn’t allowed to see her for one last time on her deathbed. Now, he will never see her again. These years of inaccurate accusations led to my grandmother’s death, the constraint of my family’s liberty, and the obliteration of families—my father’s family of orientation, his family of procreation, as well as my mother’s family.
Over the past years, Korea had developed immensely due to investment on education and the enforcement of national products. Hyundai Motors Co. is one of the companies that grew from such enforcement and now owns almost half of the market share in the Korean automobile industry. This is my father’s opponent, Hyundai. This monstrous corporation has set my father as a patsy ten years ago and since then, it has been trying to annihilate my father’s life along with his entire family and associates.
My father has served in a penitentiary for almost four years now. For the last two years, he’s been kept in Brazil and the rest in Korea. When he was imprisoned in Korea, my sisters and I did not know the reason for his absence. We were quite young, I was eleven years old, and my mom, trying to shield us from such trauma, never told us where he was. I thought he was on a long-term business trip.
My sister Jeniffer discovered his situation when she read a letter from my father with the Korean penitentiary stamp imprinted on the back of the letter. At first, she was confused, and my mom explained to her, briefly, about my father’s situation. After that, my sisters and I began writing letters to my father, as that was the only way of communication. We could not visit him as his physical condition was very deteriorated.
My father suffered from lower back pain caused by the stress of coping with the lies written about him and from his past co-workers who have shamelessly lied in their depositions and have deceived him for the monetary baits set by Hyundai. My father had gone through surgery on his lower disc of the spine, and within a week of surgery, he was sent back to the penitentiary under Hyundai’s pressure. Due to the lack of post-surgery recovery, my father could not move for days and simple tasks like going to the bathroom was a challenge. While my father was put away, taken away from us, my mother not only took my father’s role in the family but she became my father’s spokesperson. And she is still fulfilling such roles.
My mother is a hero. She literally fights for justice. She is the most honorable and respectable being I know. My mother has been battling for my father’s innocence since the beginning. Before my sisters and I knew about his distorted reputation, she met with lawyers and Hyundai employees for my father’s freedom. She did whatever they asked for, believing that this would bring back my family together. She paid Hyundai ten million U.S. dollars for my father’s release charges just to find Hyundai accusing my father once again and asking for compensation again.
Imagine this constant harassment multiplied by ten years. That is what my mom has been going through to this day. My mom stopped meeting her friends, she stopped attending events held by the Korean community and she stopped caring for herself. Instead, my mother fights for my father, and such long-term battle has affected her physical health and consequently my entire family’s well being.
My mother is the pillar of my family. As she battles for my father’s innocence and freedom, she has also raised three amazing daughters. My mother works with her family in the apparel retail store that my father had once started. With the money she earns, she pays for all the housing expenses, for my sisters’ and my education, as well as for my father’s excruciating lawyer fees and charges. She manages two retail stores, and the profit she earns barely makes the breaking point with the expenses. My mother has asked, many times, to family members as well as friends and has sold many of my family’s assets to pay for my father’s legal expenses. Fighting a mega-corporation like Hyundai requires a lot of resources; since they have more than enough money to pay for the best legal representation possible.
During my father’s trial in Korea, no one listened to him. Those trials can’t even be called trials. The Korean justice system, police, and the press all believed in Hyundai’s claim. Hyundai has developed South Korea’s economy exponentially and has become the representative of the country. Despite Hyundai’s questioning methods of becoming a leading corporation, it is very powerful and influential in Korea. That is why my family needed to come back to Brazil and try to solve the case there, where we believed Hyundai’s power to be not so affluent.
In September 2001, my family moved back to Brazil because no one listened or tried to help my father in Korea. However, even in Brazil we were harassed. Hyundai and the Korean government made an accord with the Brazilian government to find my father. Thus, my father was under the constant watch of the Brazilian authorities. His move to Brazil was announced as “escaped” from Korea. Watching my parents live separately, even though they were not divorced, and meeting my father at secret spots as well as watching our language on the phone in fear of phone taps was how my family lived until July 13th, 2006. This is the day the Brazilian police arrested my father.
For five years, since we moved back to Brazil, my family lived in a fearful life of losing my father. He was barely able to attend Jenie’s graduation in May 2004, and during my graduation in 2006, he was absent. He couldn’t even make it to Bonnie’s, his baby daughter’s, graduation either this year (2008) because he is still in the Federal Police penitentiary in São Paulo.
My sister Jeniffer has been assisting my mom and following my dad’s case over the past two years, since the day my father has been admitted to the penitentiary in São Paulo. She has stopped her education to lend a hand to my mother who has been struggling alone over the past ten years. Just like my mother, my sister has stopped everything that she has built over her life, to focus in my father’s liberty. Being the first born, Jenie has always been the bearer of responsibility. She takes care of Bonnie and me as well as my mother, who has become very fragile over the past years. Jenie has taken on my mother’s role, as well as my father’s, while maintaining her position as the eldest and battling alongside my mom for my father’s innocence. By taking on such tasks, Jenie has matured much faster than her peers.
I admire her for her unconditional love and support of the family. Her endless effort to bring the family together is beyond words. It is agonizing to see her and my mother suffer from an extensive battle of bringing my father back, and reuniting my family.
My sister Bonnie is the baby of the family and the most heartfelt one. Despite being separated from my father since age nine, Bonnie and my father share many similar characteristics. Bonnie’s athleticism, taste and talent for music, friendliness and easy-going attitude is just like my father’s. She is an active person, who not only participates in sports, but also in school plays as well as student council. Bonnie has never once complained about my family’s continuous absence in her band concerts, school productions, and sports games. She has always been understanding since little and is constantly supporting my mother and Jenie as they encounter endless hardships in bringing my father back to his family.
It’s been ten years since my family has lived together at home. Throughout those years, my family suffered from physical and mental illness, as well as emotional anguish. We’ve been tormented, tortured and torn to pieces. Over the past ten years, my family has experienced abominable atrocities that are depicted in dramatic movies—things that people believe not to be a reality. However, this is all true. A true story that I was afraid to share because I, myself, couldn’t believe it as a reality. There are many times that I hoped for the past ten years to be a nightmare, in which I could wake up and be back to living with my whole family.
I know and I believe that soon my family will be reunited. As the truth is revealed, my father will be known once again, this time as an honest man. After that, he will come back home. Over the past ten years my father missed many family moments. He missed on watching my sisters and I grow into young ladies. He missed our adolescent years and my sisters and I missed him when we needed a father figure. It is time for my father to come back home. It is time for justice. It is time for the truth to be known.
I ask for your help in telling others about my father. Let the truth be known. By doing so, my father will come back home. If you have any questions or would like to know how to help, you can contact my sisters and I. You can find our contact information at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for taking the time to read my family’s sorrowful story. Please help us in changing this story into a joyful one.
Sincerely,
Suely Jeon
RE: Hardships Caused by Corporate Manipulation
My name is Suely Jeon. If you knew me, you’ll see that I’m just an ordinary student, trying to be an active member of the community by getting involved in various programs and volunteering. I come from a Korean family, but I was born and raised for most of my life in Brazil. Many people I meet are surprised by this combination and admire the fact my parents have made my sisters and I learn our Korean heritage as well as our birth country’s customs.
My parents are Chong Jin Jeon and Jin Sook Lee. These names might not sound familiar, but if you Google my father’s name, you will find on the first hit that he is one of the “Wanted” person in the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol). No one, except my family, knows this part of me. I have never shared this side of mine, my family’s story, to anyone because I didn’t know how to say it or from where to start it. I didn’t know how people would react to it. And thus, since I am no spokesperson, I will write the story of my family and reveal to you the heart-breaking realities of the past ten years that I have kept from sharing.
It’s been ten years since my mom, sisters, and I have lived with my father. It’s been ten years since my father has been treated like a human with rights. Over the past ten years, my father’s story has been told by lawyers, policemen, reporters and circulated around in rumors. He’s story has been covered in two separate, distant countries—Brazil and Korea. The first hit I’ve mentioned in the Google results is one of those stories. These stories are crafted lies that have caused the forceful separation in my immediate family. These fabrications have caused emotional pain, mental and physical suffering, as well as the destruction of my entire family.
My father is the youngest son out of five children. His family moved to Brazil when he was twelve years old. At a young age, he had become the door-to-door salesman, selling clothes that his parents, sisters, and brothers had made. Since then, he began developing his work in the clothing industry, and soon evolved to become the manager of his own store. He met my mother, who was also an immigrant from Korea, and had three daughters: Jeniffer, Bonnie, and I.
During his marriage, my father’s family decided to move to the United States, but he chose to stay and continue his life in Brazil. My father worked with my mother’s family, teaching her younger brothers the business of managing a clothing retail store. His early work experience allowed him to further expand in the business, which provided the opportunity for my uncles to become managers of the attire stores, and for my father to explore in a different industry.
In 1993, my father began working in the automobile industry and his ability to speak both Portuguese and Korean had become an asset in providing a bridge in the business relationship between Asia Motors do Brasil (Brazil) and Kia/Asia Motor Corporation (South Korea). His efforts opened many trade opportunities, and he was acknowledged for his work. Once again, my father had used his early work experience to expand further and to learn more about commerce.
My father was not an executive or any high-ranking personnel, but as a facilitator/translator he worked among the executive workforce assisting their tasks. Many of the stories written about my father call him a “corporate fraud”, but how could he have cheated if he doesn’t have the power or the right to make decisions at a corporate level? None of the reporters, who have created this fake new character of my father, have called him for an interview or asked him what his stance was. As a reporter, how could you not use the primary source, the person who your article is written about? What are interviews for? I guess those reporters knew that their stories were fictitious and that interviewing my father would not provide the information that these biases were seeking for.
One of the reasons why I kept my father’s and family story for so long was because the people, who have read the false media jargon, and those who knew my father before the delusive extravaganza, reacted as if those stories were true! They began pointing fingers at my family and turning their backs away, treating us with repulsion.
In January 2003, my grandmother passed away from liver cancer. She was my father’s mom, who was always proud of him and could never stop describing her appreciation for his constant effort of always keeping her fulfilled. She passed away in the midst of the lies and accusations. She did not survive to see her innocent son, claiming his name back without any dishonest association. My father blames himself to be the reason of her death. He believes the allegations against him had caused her too much pain and developed to a physical illness.
When my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer in late 2001, my father, mother, sisters and I couldn’t even visit her. Our freedom had become limited, as my father was increasingly known to be a bandit. For ten years now, my family has been fighting for his innocence, for his right and freedom, for our right and liberty to be a family once again. It’s been almost ten years since I’ve visited my cousins and my dad’s family in the United States. I have never seen my cousin Kathy, who is now seven years old. I still haven’t visited my grandmother’s graveyard to show her the respect she deserves. One of the most devastating moments during these years of agony was when my father couldn’t attend his own mother’s funeral. Many years had already passed by since my father has seen his mother, and he still wasn’t allowed to see her for one last time on her deathbed. Now, he will never see her again. These years of inaccurate accusations led to my grandmother’s death, the constraint of my family’s liberty, and the obliteration of families—my father’s family of orientation, his family of procreation, as well as my mother’s family.
Over the past years, Korea had developed immensely due to investment on education and the enforcement of national products. Hyundai Motors Co. is one of the companies that grew from such enforcement and now owns almost half of the market share in the Korean automobile industry. This is my father’s opponent, Hyundai. This monstrous corporation has set my father as a patsy ten years ago and since then, it has been trying to annihilate my father’s life along with his entire family and associates.
My father has served in a penitentiary for almost four years now. For the last two years, he’s been kept in Brazil and the rest in Korea. When he was imprisoned in Korea, my sisters and I did not know the reason for his absence. We were quite young, I was eleven years old, and my mom, trying to shield us from such trauma, never told us where he was. I thought he was on a long-term business trip.
My sister Jeniffer discovered his situation when she read a letter from my father with the Korean penitentiary stamp imprinted on the back of the letter. At first, she was confused, and my mom explained to her, briefly, about my father’s situation. After that, my sisters and I began writing letters to my father, as that was the only way of communication. We could not visit him as his physical condition was very deteriorated.
My father suffered from lower back pain caused by the stress of coping with the lies written about him and from his past co-workers who have shamelessly lied in their depositions and have deceived him for the monetary baits set by Hyundai. My father had gone through surgery on his lower disc of the spine, and within a week of surgery, he was sent back to the penitentiary under Hyundai’s pressure. Due to the lack of post-surgery recovery, my father could not move for days and simple tasks like going to the bathroom was a challenge. While my father was put away, taken away from us, my mother not only took my father’s role in the family but she became my father’s spokesperson. And she is still fulfilling such roles.
My mother is a hero. She literally fights for justice. She is the most honorable and respectable being I know. My mother has been battling for my father’s innocence since the beginning. Before my sisters and I knew about his distorted reputation, she met with lawyers and Hyundai employees for my father’s freedom. She did whatever they asked for, believing that this would bring back my family together. She paid Hyundai ten million U.S. dollars for my father’s release charges just to find Hyundai accusing my father once again and asking for compensation again.
Imagine this constant harassment multiplied by ten years. That is what my mom has been going through to this day. My mom stopped meeting her friends, she stopped attending events held by the Korean community and she stopped caring for herself. Instead, my mother fights for my father, and such long-term battle has affected her physical health and consequently my entire family’s well being.
My mother is the pillar of my family. As she battles for my father’s innocence and freedom, she has also raised three amazing daughters. My mother works with her family in the apparel retail store that my father had once started. With the money she earns, she pays for all the housing expenses, for my sisters’ and my education, as well as for my father’s excruciating lawyer fees and charges. She manages two retail stores, and the profit she earns barely makes the breaking point with the expenses. My mother has asked, many times, to family members as well as friends and has sold many of my family’s assets to pay for my father’s legal expenses. Fighting a mega-corporation like Hyundai requires a lot of resources; since they have more than enough money to pay for the best legal representation possible.
During my father’s trial in Korea, no one listened to him. Those trials can’t even be called trials. The Korean justice system, police, and the press all believed in Hyundai’s claim. Hyundai has developed South Korea’s economy exponentially and has become the representative of the country. Despite Hyundai’s questioning methods of becoming a leading corporation, it is very powerful and influential in Korea. That is why my family needed to come back to Brazil and try to solve the case there, where we believed Hyundai’s power to be not so affluent.
In September 2001, my family moved back to Brazil because no one listened or tried to help my father in Korea. However, even in Brazil we were harassed. Hyundai and the Korean government made an accord with the Brazilian government to find my father. Thus, my father was under the constant watch of the Brazilian authorities. His move to Brazil was announced as “escaped” from Korea. Watching my parents live separately, even though they were not divorced, and meeting my father at secret spots as well as watching our language on the phone in fear of phone taps was how my family lived until July 13th, 2006. This is the day the Brazilian police arrested my father.
For five years, since we moved back to Brazil, my family lived in a fearful life of losing my father. He was barely able to attend Jenie’s graduation in May 2004, and during my graduation in 2006, he was absent. He couldn’t even make it to Bonnie’s, his baby daughter’s, graduation either this year (2008) because he is still in the Federal Police penitentiary in São Paulo.
My sister Jeniffer has been assisting my mom and following my dad’s case over the past two years, since the day my father has been admitted to the penitentiary in São Paulo. She has stopped her education to lend a hand to my mother who has been struggling alone over the past ten years. Just like my mother, my sister has stopped everything that she has built over her life, to focus in my father’s liberty. Being the first born, Jenie has always been the bearer of responsibility. She takes care of Bonnie and me as well as my mother, who has become very fragile over the past years. Jenie has taken on my mother’s role, as well as my father’s, while maintaining her position as the eldest and battling alongside my mom for my father’s innocence. By taking on such tasks, Jenie has matured much faster than her peers.
I admire her for her unconditional love and support of the family. Her endless effort to bring the family together is beyond words. It is agonizing to see her and my mother suffer from an extensive battle of bringing my father back, and reuniting my family.
My sister Bonnie is the baby of the family and the most heartfelt one. Despite being separated from my father since age nine, Bonnie and my father share many similar characteristics. Bonnie’s athleticism, taste and talent for music, friendliness and easy-going attitude is just like my father’s. She is an active person, who not only participates in sports, but also in school plays as well as student council. Bonnie has never once complained about my family’s continuous absence in her band concerts, school productions, and sports games. She has always been understanding since little and is constantly supporting my mother and Jenie as they encounter endless hardships in bringing my father back to his family.
It’s been ten years since my family has lived together at home. Throughout those years, my family suffered from physical and mental illness, as well as emotional anguish. We’ve been tormented, tortured and torn to pieces. Over the past ten years, my family has experienced abominable atrocities that are depicted in dramatic movies—things that people believe not to be a reality. However, this is all true. A true story that I was afraid to share because I, myself, couldn’t believe it as a reality. There are many times that I hoped for the past ten years to be a nightmare, in which I could wake up and be back to living with my whole family.
I know and I believe that soon my family will be reunited. As the truth is revealed, my father will be known once again, this time as an honest man. After that, he will come back home. Over the past ten years my father missed many family moments. He missed on watching my sisters and I grow into young ladies. He missed our adolescent years and my sisters and I missed him when we needed a father figure. It is time for my father to come back home. It is time for justice. It is time for the truth to be known.
I ask for your help in telling others about my father. Let the truth be known. By doing so, my father will come back home. If you have any questions or would like to know how to help, you can contact my sisters and I. You can find our contact information at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for taking the time to read my family’s sorrowful story. Please help us in changing this story into a joyful one.
Sincerely,
Suely Jeon
Request for Help
To Whom It May Concern,
RE: Corporate Manipulation and Violation of Human Rights
My name is Suely Jeon. I am writing this letter to ask for your help in saving my father’s life.
My father’s name is Chong Jin Jeon. If you search his name on Google or any other search engines, you will find various articles in Portuguese, Korean, English calling him a “corporate fraud” or find judicial case progresses under his name. All of these search results are stories of my father told by lawyers, policemen, and reporters. Though my father is the main character of these stories, none of them have actually portrayed him truthfully, only focusing on their side of the story.
My father immigrated to Brazil at age twelve and began working as a door-to-door salesman in order to sustain his parents, brothers, and sisters. At age twenty-one, he married my mom and one year later they had their first daughter, Jeniffer, followed by me and Bonnie. Since early age, my father was responsible for fostering family members, supporting human beings other than himself. This sort of responsibility is usually given once after one learns how to take care of oneself. Due to such responsibilities, my father did not have the chance to earn a college degree. He learned lessons about work and life as he confronted the situations. Thus, he’s the type of person who’s willing to take chances.
My father’s opportunity-seeking attitude has developed his interpersonal skills, which permitted him to meet with various prominent people, such as former president of Brazil, Fernando H. Cardoso. How does a man like my father, a family man who meets with renowned people, is known as a corporate fraud and is trialed for such crime? Corporate manipulation.
My father is a victim of corporate manipulation. He is the victim of the immense firm, Hyundai. Hyundai has used my father as a scapegoat for money. The company has violated human rights for a profit. In the attached letter, you will find how Hyundai has distorted my father into the search results you have found. As you read his case, I would like to ask you to consider the following questions:
1. Where is the money that my father has supposedly stolen?
2. Why is he the sole person held responsible when there were others involved?
3. How can he be a “corporate fraud” if he had no administrative authority?
I ask you to read the following letter with an honest mind because that is how my father’s life can be saved. Solely with the truth. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and your interest in saving my father’s life.
Sincerely,
Suely Jeon
RE: Corporate Manipulation and Violation of Human Rights
My name is Suely Jeon. I am writing this letter to ask for your help in saving my father’s life.
My father’s name is Chong Jin Jeon. If you search his name on Google or any other search engines, you will find various articles in Portuguese, Korean, English calling him a “corporate fraud” or find judicial case progresses under his name. All of these search results are stories of my father told by lawyers, policemen, and reporters. Though my father is the main character of these stories, none of them have actually portrayed him truthfully, only focusing on their side of the story.
My father immigrated to Brazil at age twelve and began working as a door-to-door salesman in order to sustain his parents, brothers, and sisters. At age twenty-one, he married my mom and one year later they had their first daughter, Jeniffer, followed by me and Bonnie. Since early age, my father was responsible for fostering family members, supporting human beings other than himself. This sort of responsibility is usually given once after one learns how to take care of oneself. Due to such responsibilities, my father did not have the chance to earn a college degree. He learned lessons about work and life as he confronted the situations. Thus, he’s the type of person who’s willing to take chances.
My father’s opportunity-seeking attitude has developed his interpersonal skills, which permitted him to meet with various prominent people, such as former president of Brazil, Fernando H. Cardoso. How does a man like my father, a family man who meets with renowned people, is known as a corporate fraud and is trialed for such crime? Corporate manipulation.
My father is a victim of corporate manipulation. He is the victim of the immense firm, Hyundai. Hyundai has used my father as a scapegoat for money. The company has violated human rights for a profit. In the attached letter, you will find how Hyundai has distorted my father into the search results you have found. As you read his case, I would like to ask you to consider the following questions:
1. Where is the money that my father has supposedly stolen?
2. Why is he the sole person held responsible when there were others involved?
3. How can he be a “corporate fraud” if he had no administrative authority?
I ask you to read the following letter with an honest mind because that is how my father’s life can be saved. Solely with the truth. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and your interest in saving my father’s life.
Sincerely,
Suely Jeon
Details of the case...
To Whom It May Concern,
RE: Corporate Manipulation and Violation of Human Rights
My name is Suely Jeon. I am writing this letter to ask for your help in saving my father’s life.
My father’s name is Chong Jin Jeon. For the last two years, he has been in the Federal Police penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, serving time for a crime he has not committed. For the past ten years, he has been battling for his innocence against the vast corporation, Hyundai Motor Corporation.
Hyundai, Samsung, and LG are major Korean corporations that have driven South Korea’s exponential economic growth and development. These companies have become representatives of South Korea. Powerful families known as “Chaebol” run these conglomerates and produce the majority of Korean products—from electronics to automobiles to real estate. They also sponsor for Korean presidential campaigns, often through illegal funding. The power these corporations hold is beyond governmental control and regulation. It can be said that these businesses stand above the law. Chief executive officers of these enterprises, such as Mong Koo Chung (CEO of Hyundai Motor Co.), have been accused and prosecuted for embezzlement, tax evasion, misuse of public funds, and illegally transferring stock ownership. Yet, even with months of investigation and evidence of such crimes, the Korean government and justice system have tolerated these felonies because these companies generate more than enough funds to rule the way they wish and would like to.*
* Fackler, Martin and Sang-Hun Choe. “Chairman of Hyundai Is Charged with Theft.” World Business. May 17, 2006. The New York Times. July 11, 2008. < http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/business/worldbusiness/17hyundai.html?scp=1&sq=chairman%20of%20hyundai&st=cse>.
My father began working with Hyundai in late 1998, during the period of South Korea’s indebtedness to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This was a time of economic crisis and to overcome this, many South Koreans began a movement of donating their gold such as engagement rings and family inheritance to the Korean government. In 1993, my father worked in a car importing company in Brazil called Asia Motor do Brasil (AMB), which had an automobile trade relationship with Asia Motor Corp. in Korea, kwon as AMC (a subsidiary company of Kia Motor Corp.). AMC exported cars from Korea and AMB imported them to Brazil, distributing the cars to other auto dealerships.
When the Brazilian government increased the tax of foreign cars in 1995 from 20% to 70%, AMC and AMB had no choice but to alter their business strategy. New AMB would become a manufacturing company instead of an importer, resulting in the decision for AMC and AMB to project an automobile factory in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian government, along with former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was thrilled for such construction, as it would provide many work opportunities. With AMC holding 51% of the stock and the Brazilian shareholders (Washington Lopes, Roberto Uchoa Neto, and Chong Jin Jeon) 49%, the project was planned and contracts were signed under the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) on June 24th, 1997. However, when the IMF debt hit Korea in 1997, Kia announced bankruptcy on July 15th, 1997 and the company was held by the Korean government for sale. Ford expressed considerable interest in buying Kia, but the Korean government sold the company to Hyundai at a discounted price.
Hyundai bought Kia at a cheaper price by accusing my father of stealing two hundred million U.S. dollars from AMC, stating that my father and AMB did not pay for the cars they had imported before. The Korean government, without any investigation of Hyundai’s claim, believed this to be true and allowed Hyundai to buy Kia along with AMC at a price they had requested (with a $ 200 million discount) in order to maintain Kia as a national company. Thus, Kia/AMC became part of Hyundai, and the construction of the factory in Brazil was now under Hyundai’s management.
When the time to build the factory had come, Hyundai did not provide the 51% of finance that they were supposed to. Without the input of the majority, the factory project did not commence and the Brazilian government, who had provided subsidies for the project, began taxing the project owners.
My father, once again, became the key person in this situation as all of the blame fell to him. Hyundai portrayed my father as a fraud who stole the entire investment fund with no intentions to build the factory. Hyundai needed to incriminate my father or else they would have to bear the immense taxes required by the Brazilian government, still unpaid and gathering interest over the past ten years. Currently, this penalty is over a billion U.S. dollars. The Brazilian government did not accept Hyundai’s story because they knew the factory project was not a scam. They had provided subsidies and held a grand groundbreaking ceremony at the future plant location on August 8th, 1997.
On November 24th, 1998, the Korean police arrested my father as he stepped out of the conference room, after finishing a meeting with Hyundai executives, the former AMC employees. The police were waiting for him in the Kia/AMC’s office building. The meeting was held to discuss the Venture Agreement, and Hyundai had specifically called my father to attend the meeting. Since the factory was planned to be built in Brazil, by law, parties agreed to hold all Venture meetings in Brazil. Yet, Hyundai later decided to change this agreement and refused to negotiate unless the meeting was in Korea. My father had no choice but to meet them because the construction of the factory was on hold and the Brazilian government was constantly questioning the factory’s progress.
Sang Tae Suh, an employee of AMC and the vice-president of the new AMB, told my father not to leave to Korea. He knew that my father was going to be arrested after the meeting. He had received a phone call from a Hyundai employee in the U.S. who had asked if my father was arrested yet. Sang Tae Suh warned my father because he thought the charges would be for the capital increase of the Venture project, which my father had no idea of what it was until he was trialed for in Korea. Mr. Suh was a member of the Administration Committee (AC) of AMC, who planned the capital increase of the JVA, and was trying to avoid any complications towards him. However, my father was arrested because of Documents Acceptance (D/A) and was released after two days since there weren’t any evidence to keep him in custody. From this incident, it is clear that Hyundai and AMC were already conspiring to arrest my father. They just didn’t know what to accuse him with.
Soon after his arrest, on November 25th, 1998, the president of AMC, Kwang Soon Kim, who had become an employee of Hyundai, sent a fax to Washington Lopes (the president of new AMB) describing my father’s arrest as a result of “personal misdeeds” and asking him to “manage AMB and your people to overcome this unexpected situation” (Quoted from the fax). The fax was sent to Mr. Lopes and Mr. Suh. The president of AMC described my father’s arrest as “personal misdeeds” because he couldn’t tell the president of AMB that my father was being charged for not paying the D/A and for fraud with the capital increase. As my father’s employer, Mr. Lopes knew that my father had no authority to sign documents or make any decisions for the company and Mr. Kim had no documents to prove the allegations.
In Korea, my father was trialed against various charges. First, he was accused of not paying the D/A, the cars AMB had imported to Brazil. My father explained that the D/A was paid and that it was the Korea Development Bank that kept the money on hold because Kia was bankrupt. The bank was waiting for the company to pay the debts first. AMC had even created a separate account with another bank, and had asked AMB to pay upfront, instead of waiting until the cars were sold first. Despite the change of agreement and AMB’s incurred loss, my father complied with their request. Thus, because my father could explain the D/A accusations thoroughly, Hyundai had moved on to another absurd accusation, the capital increase.
The idea of capital increase began when Kia announced bankruptcy. The Brazilian government was uncertain of the Venture project, due to the bankrupt company, and wanted to make sure the factory was being built since they had provided subsidies. To guarantee the construction, the Administration Committee of AMC, the president of new AMB (Mr. Lopes), and VP of new AMB (Mr. Suh) had come up with the idea of capital increase. With the approval of the consulting firm, Arthur Andersen LLP, the capital increase stated that both AMC and AMB would use the payment to the D/A for the funding of the factory. This amount totaled to four hundred million U.S. dollars--$ 200 million from AMC and $ 200 million from AMB. Thus, on February 27th, 1998, in Brazil, the Brazilian shareholders and AMC agreed to establish the capital increase agreement.
As mentioned above, the Brazilian government requested the capital increase and it was first suggested by the president of the new AMB at the time, Washington Lopes, along with the AC from Korea (AMC). Yet, the testimonies of Hyundai Motor Co., which were given by the ex-employees of AMC, informed the Supreme Court of Korea that my father had planned and initiated the capital increase. When the capital increase was agreed on February 27th, 1998, my father was in Korea due to my mother’s injury on the knee. He was not present at the meeting held in Brazil and was uninformed of such agreement. He has a comprehensive alibi of his absence. This evidently shows that Hyundai’s claim is an obvious conspiracy and perjury.
The AMC administrators (Bong Ho Choi, Kwang Nam Ahn, Sang Tae Suh, Jong Suk Park, and Ji Myung Yu) and the president of AMB (Washington Lopes) were the ones who conducted the capital increase arrangement. Yet, how did my father become the only accused one?
Hyundai could not accuse Mr. Lopes because he is a Brazilian citizen and was in Brazil at the time. They knew that if Mr. Lopes was on trial, the Brazilian government would investigate their claims in order to protect their citizens. Mr. Lopes even admits of Hyundai bribing him with thirty million U.S. dollars if he stepped out of the case. How is Hyundai not accused of bribery?
The AMC employees couldn’t be accused because they were Hyundai employees now. Thus, to avoid having Hyundai bear the factory construction penalty, they lied. They deceitfully said that my father had threatened them to sign the capital increase agreement and admitted that it was a fraud. The reason why the capital increase began was because Kia/AMC was bankrupt and most importantly, the Brazilian government needed assurance. If my father was a fraud, why would he try to continue business with a bankrupt company that was indebted? He should’ve stopped all transactions when Kia announced bankruptcy. Also, if the AMC employees knew that everything was a fraud, why did they wait until my father “stole” the money?
When Hyundai acquired the Kia/AMC, it had no interest in building a factory in Brazil. At the time, Hyundai was focusing on the eastern European market. Hyundai even announced that they would not pay the penalty the Brazilian government required. As the owner of Kia/AMC, Hyundai should have taken the responsibility. However, they decided to take the profits of Kia/AMC, the new projects that they were working on, and not the responsibility of their debts. This is why my father has been fighting this vast corporation for ten years.
Hyundai really framed my father as a hoax during his trials. They stated the Joint Venture Agreement was all planned by my father, with no intention to actually build the factory. If my father really had no intentions, then why did he attend the meeting set by Hyundai employees when he was advised not to leave? Also, the Brazilian government had provided subsidies for the project. Does that mean the Brazilian government was an accomplice? Ford took over the factory project in Bahia, and out of all the factories Ford owns worldwide, the one in Bahia is the most profitable. If the factory construction, as Hyundai states, was all a scam how could Ford earn such profits?
To make matters worse, my father’s co-workers from AMB were not present in his trials. They all feared that Hyundai would accuse them as they did to my father by using false testimonies and documents. They couldn’t believe how the Korean justice system and police believed all of Hyundai’s accusations. It was impossible for my father’s voice to be heard in Korea. Hyundai had too much influence and power. My father’s trials in Korea were not just. How could it be if all the real documents of the JVA as well as the people involved were in Brazil? That is why my father had to and needed to go back to Brazil.
Hyundai asked my father to pay US$ 10,000,000 for his release, after having him spend 19 months in jail. Ten million U.S. dollars was an unimaginable amount of money during the IMF crisis, and my mother had to ask my father’s co-workers, family members, and friends for the money. On the surface, Hyundai asserted that the bail was for my father to return to his business, resolve the export payment, the capital increase, and the penalty from the Brazilian government that was increasing as time passed. However, this was an excuse for Hyundai to extort more money from my father.
After his release, Hyundai continued threatening my father, telling him to obey whatever they say. Despite my father’s release, Hyundai asked the Korean court to ban my father from leaving the country. Then, Hyundai demanded for an additional US$ 50,000,000 as a compensation for lifting his travel ban.
However, my father had to go back to Brazil in order to clear his name and the false accusations. Thus, in September of 2001 my father leaves South Korea without paying the 50 million U.S. dollars.
Yet, even in Brazil, Hyundai harassed my father. They’ve sent lawyers to alert him that he was being watched. One of Hyundai’s lawyers, an American named Michael S. Goldberg (who has also represented president George W. Bush), told my father he knows about his innocence, but could not officially admit it because Hyundai had contracted him. After one year of my father’s arrival to Brazil, Hyundai announced via the Korean media that my father had “escaped” from Korea. The Korean government then creates a pact with the Brazilian government in finding my father, calling it “Offender Extradition Treaty”. This is when my father became a fugitive in Brazil.
As a fugitive, my father could not live at home with his family. My family was forced to live apart and he couldn’t even contact us when he wanted. My sisters and I were also followed by a man, hired by Hyundai, who came to us and said that he would stop following if we paid him more. Every time we met my father, we had to watch our backs making sure no one was following. My father could not even attend my graduation because it was too dangerous. I couldn’t even tell my friends about my father because I was afraid to expose him and have him arrested, despite his innocence.
On July 13th, 2006, the Brazilian police found my father and arrested him. Since his arrest, my father has been in various trials in Brazil with the Korean government, who yearns for his arrival to Korea. The judges, who had the preconception of my father as the “offender” (due to the treaty with the Korean government), ruled to send him back. He tried to appeal, and his appeal was overturned. My family even asked for him to be given refugee status, to be exiled from Korea, and that was overruled. We appealed the refugee status and that was denied as well. Now, he’s appealing for the second time at the Supreme Court of Brazil for his extradition.
At the beginning of this letter, I have asked for your help in saving my father’s life. If my father’s appeal for the extradition is revoked and he is sent to Korea, I can assure you he will not survive. Hyundai will do anything to keep him quiet, which is possible in Korea. My father is the living proof of their crimes.
I am writing this letter because justice has not occurred and the truth has been unheard. As humans, we have human rights: The right to life, liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law. Yet, my father, who is also a human being, is exempt from all of the above. His life as a father has been taken away, he does not have the liberty to be heard, cannot speak to defend himself, and faces a court that is prejudiced against him. I need your help in restoring my father’s human rights.
I request for your assistance in telling others about my father. His side of the story needs to be known. For ten years, it has been buried under Hyundai’s fabrications. It is time for justice. It is time for the truth to be recognized.
Despite Hyundai’s current interest in the Brazilian market, Hyundai is prohibited to build an automobile-manufacturing factory in Brazil because of the penalty from ten years ago. If my father’s truth is revealed, Hyundai can admit their fault and find a way to negotiate with the Brazilian government. My father’s freedom is the resolution for Hyundai’s advancement and his imprisonment is the proof of their corruption.
To explain my father’s case in a few pages is not enough as it goes back fifteen years ago (since 1993). If you have any questions or seek more information, please feel free to contact my sisters and I. You can find our contact information at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and for your support in saving my father’s life by revealing the truth.
Sincerely,
Suely Jeon
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Jeniffer Jeon
Phone: +55 11 4193 5578
+55 11 7667 9585
E-mail: jjjustice98@gmail.com
Suely Jeon
Phone: +55 11 7667 2118
E-mail: jjjustice98@gmail.com
Bonnie Jeon
Phone: +55 11 7667 2343
E-mail: jjjustice98@gmail.com
RE: Corporate Manipulation and Violation of Human Rights
My name is Suely Jeon. I am writing this letter to ask for your help in saving my father’s life.
My father’s name is Chong Jin Jeon. For the last two years, he has been in the Federal Police penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, serving time for a crime he has not committed. For the past ten years, he has been battling for his innocence against the vast corporation, Hyundai Motor Corporation.
Hyundai, Samsung, and LG are major Korean corporations that have driven South Korea’s exponential economic growth and development. These companies have become representatives of South Korea. Powerful families known as “Chaebol” run these conglomerates and produce the majority of Korean products—from electronics to automobiles to real estate. They also sponsor for Korean presidential campaigns, often through illegal funding. The power these corporations hold is beyond governmental control and regulation. It can be said that these businesses stand above the law. Chief executive officers of these enterprises, such as Mong Koo Chung (CEO of Hyundai Motor Co.), have been accused and prosecuted for embezzlement, tax evasion, misuse of public funds, and illegally transferring stock ownership. Yet, even with months of investigation and evidence of such crimes, the Korean government and justice system have tolerated these felonies because these companies generate more than enough funds to rule the way they wish and would like to.*
* Fackler, Martin and Sang-Hun Choe. “Chairman of Hyundai Is Charged with Theft.” World Business. May 17, 2006. The New York Times. July 11, 2008. < http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/business/worldbusiness/17hyundai.html?scp=1&sq=chairman%20of%20hyundai&st=cse>.
My father began working with Hyundai in late 1998, during the period of South Korea’s indebtedness to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This was a time of economic crisis and to overcome this, many South Koreans began a movement of donating their gold such as engagement rings and family inheritance to the Korean government. In 1993, my father worked in a car importing company in Brazil called Asia Motor do Brasil (AMB), which had an automobile trade relationship with Asia Motor Corp. in Korea, kwon as AMC (a subsidiary company of Kia Motor Corp.). AMC exported cars from Korea and AMB imported them to Brazil, distributing the cars to other auto dealerships.
When the Brazilian government increased the tax of foreign cars in 1995 from 20% to 70%, AMC and AMB had no choice but to alter their business strategy. New AMB would become a manufacturing company instead of an importer, resulting in the decision for AMC and AMB to project an automobile factory in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian government, along with former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was thrilled for such construction, as it would provide many work opportunities. With AMC holding 51% of the stock and the Brazilian shareholders (Washington Lopes, Roberto Uchoa Neto, and Chong Jin Jeon) 49%, the project was planned and contracts were signed under the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) on June 24th, 1997. However, when the IMF debt hit Korea in 1997, Kia announced bankruptcy on July 15th, 1997 and the company was held by the Korean government for sale. Ford expressed considerable interest in buying Kia, but the Korean government sold the company to Hyundai at a discounted price.
Hyundai bought Kia at a cheaper price by accusing my father of stealing two hundred million U.S. dollars from AMC, stating that my father and AMB did not pay for the cars they had imported before. The Korean government, without any investigation of Hyundai’s claim, believed this to be true and allowed Hyundai to buy Kia along with AMC at a price they had requested (with a $ 200 million discount) in order to maintain Kia as a national company. Thus, Kia/AMC became part of Hyundai, and the construction of the factory in Brazil was now under Hyundai’s management.
When the time to build the factory had come, Hyundai did not provide the 51% of finance that they were supposed to. Without the input of the majority, the factory project did not commence and the Brazilian government, who had provided subsidies for the project, began taxing the project owners.
My father, once again, became the key person in this situation as all of the blame fell to him. Hyundai portrayed my father as a fraud who stole the entire investment fund with no intentions to build the factory. Hyundai needed to incriminate my father or else they would have to bear the immense taxes required by the Brazilian government, still unpaid and gathering interest over the past ten years. Currently, this penalty is over a billion U.S. dollars. The Brazilian government did not accept Hyundai’s story because they knew the factory project was not a scam. They had provided subsidies and held a grand groundbreaking ceremony at the future plant location on August 8th, 1997.
On November 24th, 1998, the Korean police arrested my father as he stepped out of the conference room, after finishing a meeting with Hyundai executives, the former AMC employees. The police were waiting for him in the Kia/AMC’s office building. The meeting was held to discuss the Venture Agreement, and Hyundai had specifically called my father to attend the meeting. Since the factory was planned to be built in Brazil, by law, parties agreed to hold all Venture meetings in Brazil. Yet, Hyundai later decided to change this agreement and refused to negotiate unless the meeting was in Korea. My father had no choice but to meet them because the construction of the factory was on hold and the Brazilian government was constantly questioning the factory’s progress.
Sang Tae Suh, an employee of AMC and the vice-president of the new AMB, told my father not to leave to Korea. He knew that my father was going to be arrested after the meeting. He had received a phone call from a Hyundai employee in the U.S. who had asked if my father was arrested yet. Sang Tae Suh warned my father because he thought the charges would be for the capital increase of the Venture project, which my father had no idea of what it was until he was trialed for in Korea. Mr. Suh was a member of the Administration Committee (AC) of AMC, who planned the capital increase of the JVA, and was trying to avoid any complications towards him. However, my father was arrested because of Documents Acceptance (D/A) and was released after two days since there weren’t any evidence to keep him in custody. From this incident, it is clear that Hyundai and AMC were already conspiring to arrest my father. They just didn’t know what to accuse him with.
Soon after his arrest, on November 25th, 1998, the president of AMC, Kwang Soon Kim, who had become an employee of Hyundai, sent a fax to Washington Lopes (the president of new AMB) describing my father’s arrest as a result of “personal misdeeds” and asking him to “manage AMB and your people to overcome this unexpected situation” (Quoted from the fax). The fax was sent to Mr. Lopes and Mr. Suh. The president of AMC described my father’s arrest as “personal misdeeds” because he couldn’t tell the president of AMB that my father was being charged for not paying the D/A and for fraud with the capital increase. As my father’s employer, Mr. Lopes knew that my father had no authority to sign documents or make any decisions for the company and Mr. Kim had no documents to prove the allegations.
In Korea, my father was trialed against various charges. First, he was accused of not paying the D/A, the cars AMB had imported to Brazil. My father explained that the D/A was paid and that it was the Korea Development Bank that kept the money on hold because Kia was bankrupt. The bank was waiting for the company to pay the debts first. AMC had even created a separate account with another bank, and had asked AMB to pay upfront, instead of waiting until the cars were sold first. Despite the change of agreement and AMB’s incurred loss, my father complied with their request. Thus, because my father could explain the D/A accusations thoroughly, Hyundai had moved on to another absurd accusation, the capital increase.
The idea of capital increase began when Kia announced bankruptcy. The Brazilian government was uncertain of the Venture project, due to the bankrupt company, and wanted to make sure the factory was being built since they had provided subsidies. To guarantee the construction, the Administration Committee of AMC, the president of new AMB (Mr. Lopes), and VP of new AMB (Mr. Suh) had come up with the idea of capital increase. With the approval of the consulting firm, Arthur Andersen LLP, the capital increase stated that both AMC and AMB would use the payment to the D/A for the funding of the factory. This amount totaled to four hundred million U.S. dollars--$ 200 million from AMC and $ 200 million from AMB. Thus, on February 27th, 1998, in Brazil, the Brazilian shareholders and AMC agreed to establish the capital increase agreement.
As mentioned above, the Brazilian government requested the capital increase and it was first suggested by the president of the new AMB at the time, Washington Lopes, along with the AC from Korea (AMC). Yet, the testimonies of Hyundai Motor Co., which were given by the ex-employees of AMC, informed the Supreme Court of Korea that my father had planned and initiated the capital increase. When the capital increase was agreed on February 27th, 1998, my father was in Korea due to my mother’s injury on the knee. He was not present at the meeting held in Brazil and was uninformed of such agreement. He has a comprehensive alibi of his absence. This evidently shows that Hyundai’s claim is an obvious conspiracy and perjury.
The AMC administrators (Bong Ho Choi, Kwang Nam Ahn, Sang Tae Suh, Jong Suk Park, and Ji Myung Yu) and the president of AMB (Washington Lopes) were the ones who conducted the capital increase arrangement. Yet, how did my father become the only accused one?
Hyundai could not accuse Mr. Lopes because he is a Brazilian citizen and was in Brazil at the time. They knew that if Mr. Lopes was on trial, the Brazilian government would investigate their claims in order to protect their citizens. Mr. Lopes even admits of Hyundai bribing him with thirty million U.S. dollars if he stepped out of the case. How is Hyundai not accused of bribery?
The AMC employees couldn’t be accused because they were Hyundai employees now. Thus, to avoid having Hyundai bear the factory construction penalty, they lied. They deceitfully said that my father had threatened them to sign the capital increase agreement and admitted that it was a fraud. The reason why the capital increase began was because Kia/AMC was bankrupt and most importantly, the Brazilian government needed assurance. If my father was a fraud, why would he try to continue business with a bankrupt company that was indebted? He should’ve stopped all transactions when Kia announced bankruptcy. Also, if the AMC employees knew that everything was a fraud, why did they wait until my father “stole” the money?
When Hyundai acquired the Kia/AMC, it had no interest in building a factory in Brazil. At the time, Hyundai was focusing on the eastern European market. Hyundai even announced that they would not pay the penalty the Brazilian government required. As the owner of Kia/AMC, Hyundai should have taken the responsibility. However, they decided to take the profits of Kia/AMC, the new projects that they were working on, and not the responsibility of their debts. This is why my father has been fighting this vast corporation for ten years.
Hyundai really framed my father as a hoax during his trials. They stated the Joint Venture Agreement was all planned by my father, with no intention to actually build the factory. If my father really had no intentions, then why did he attend the meeting set by Hyundai employees when he was advised not to leave? Also, the Brazilian government had provided subsidies for the project. Does that mean the Brazilian government was an accomplice? Ford took over the factory project in Bahia, and out of all the factories Ford owns worldwide, the one in Bahia is the most profitable. If the factory construction, as Hyundai states, was all a scam how could Ford earn such profits?
To make matters worse, my father’s co-workers from AMB were not present in his trials. They all feared that Hyundai would accuse them as they did to my father by using false testimonies and documents. They couldn’t believe how the Korean justice system and police believed all of Hyundai’s accusations. It was impossible for my father’s voice to be heard in Korea. Hyundai had too much influence and power. My father’s trials in Korea were not just. How could it be if all the real documents of the JVA as well as the people involved were in Brazil? That is why my father had to and needed to go back to Brazil.
Hyundai asked my father to pay US$ 10,000,000 for his release, after having him spend 19 months in jail. Ten million U.S. dollars was an unimaginable amount of money during the IMF crisis, and my mother had to ask my father’s co-workers, family members, and friends for the money. On the surface, Hyundai asserted that the bail was for my father to return to his business, resolve the export payment, the capital increase, and the penalty from the Brazilian government that was increasing as time passed. However, this was an excuse for Hyundai to extort more money from my father.
After his release, Hyundai continued threatening my father, telling him to obey whatever they say. Despite my father’s release, Hyundai asked the Korean court to ban my father from leaving the country. Then, Hyundai demanded for an additional US$ 50,000,000 as a compensation for lifting his travel ban.
However, my father had to go back to Brazil in order to clear his name and the false accusations. Thus, in September of 2001 my father leaves South Korea without paying the 50 million U.S. dollars.
Yet, even in Brazil, Hyundai harassed my father. They’ve sent lawyers to alert him that he was being watched. One of Hyundai’s lawyers, an American named Michael S. Goldberg (who has also represented president George W. Bush), told my father he knows about his innocence, but could not officially admit it because Hyundai had contracted him. After one year of my father’s arrival to Brazil, Hyundai announced via the Korean media that my father had “escaped” from Korea. The Korean government then creates a pact with the Brazilian government in finding my father, calling it “Offender Extradition Treaty”. This is when my father became a fugitive in Brazil.
As a fugitive, my father could not live at home with his family. My family was forced to live apart and he couldn’t even contact us when he wanted. My sisters and I were also followed by a man, hired by Hyundai, who came to us and said that he would stop following if we paid him more. Every time we met my father, we had to watch our backs making sure no one was following. My father could not even attend my graduation because it was too dangerous. I couldn’t even tell my friends about my father because I was afraid to expose him and have him arrested, despite his innocence.
On July 13th, 2006, the Brazilian police found my father and arrested him. Since his arrest, my father has been in various trials in Brazil with the Korean government, who yearns for his arrival to Korea. The judges, who had the preconception of my father as the “offender” (due to the treaty with the Korean government), ruled to send him back. He tried to appeal, and his appeal was overturned. My family even asked for him to be given refugee status, to be exiled from Korea, and that was overruled. We appealed the refugee status and that was denied as well. Now, he’s appealing for the second time at the Supreme Court of Brazil for his extradition.
At the beginning of this letter, I have asked for your help in saving my father’s life. If my father’s appeal for the extradition is revoked and he is sent to Korea, I can assure you he will not survive. Hyundai will do anything to keep him quiet, which is possible in Korea. My father is the living proof of their crimes.
I am writing this letter because justice has not occurred and the truth has been unheard. As humans, we have human rights: The right to life, liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law. Yet, my father, who is also a human being, is exempt from all of the above. His life as a father has been taken away, he does not have the liberty to be heard, cannot speak to defend himself, and faces a court that is prejudiced against him. I need your help in restoring my father’s human rights.
I request for your assistance in telling others about my father. His side of the story needs to be known. For ten years, it has been buried under Hyundai’s fabrications. It is time for justice. It is time for the truth to be recognized.
Despite Hyundai’s current interest in the Brazilian market, Hyundai is prohibited to build an automobile-manufacturing factory in Brazil because of the penalty from ten years ago. If my father’s truth is revealed, Hyundai can admit their fault and find a way to negotiate with the Brazilian government. My father’s freedom is the resolution for Hyundai’s advancement and his imprisonment is the proof of their corruption.
To explain my father’s case in a few pages is not enough as it goes back fifteen years ago (since 1993). If you have any questions or seek more information, please feel free to contact my sisters and I. You can find our contact information at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and for your support in saving my father’s life by revealing the truth.
Sincerely,
Suely Jeon
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Jeniffer Jeon
Phone: +55 11 4193 5578
+55 11 7667 9585
E-mail: jjjustice98@gmail.com
Suely Jeon
Phone: +55 11 7667 2118
E-mail: jjjustice98@gmail.com
Bonnie Jeon
Phone: +55 11 7667 2343
E-mail: jjjustice98@gmail.com
Sunday, June 29, 2008
KWANG- TAE KIM/ Associated Press
Tuesday, May 20 2008
SEOUL, South Korea-- State prosecutors demanded Tuesday a six- year prison term for Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-koo after the Supreme Court ordered a resentencing in the auto tycoon's embezzlement convition.
The Seoul High Court last year suspended a three- year prison term handed to Chung by a lower court while upholding his guilty verdict for embezzlement and breach of trust. Prosecutors had originally sought six years.
The high court also ordered Chung to do public service in the form of delivering lectures and writing newspaper and magazine articles on lawful management, and to fulfill a promise to donate 1 trillion won ($957 million) of assets to society.
The court suspended Chung's prison term for five years, meaning he would not go to jail if he stays out of trouble during the period.
In their appeal to the Supreme Court, prosecutors said that lecture and writing were not proper activities for sentences involving community service. The top court last month agreed and sent the case back to the high court for a new sentence.
On Tuesday, prosecutor Yoon Dae- jin called Chung's case "grave" and said the high court should deal with it sternly.
Chung's lawyers pleaded with the new presiding judge to maintain the suspended three-year prison term, citing the executive's contribution to South Korea's economy and his importance to Hyundai's planned overseas investments.
"I will make my utmost efforst to ensure (Hyundai Motor) becomes a world- class corportation if I am given leniency," Chung said at the end of the hearing.
The new sentence was set to be handed down June 3, according to the court.
Chung was found guilyt in February last year on charges that he raised a $100 million slush fund from affiliates. Prosecutors said much of the money was used to pay lobbyists to gain government favors and for personal use.
The presiding judge who handed down the suspended prison term said at the time that CHung was too important to the nation's economy to go to prison.
Hyundai Motor is South Korea's biggest automaker and a key driver of the world's 13th- largest economy. Hyundai and affiliate Kia Motors Corp. together form the world's sixth- largest automotive group.
Hyundai shares declined 1.3 percent Tuesday to close at 87,100 won ($83).
Tuesday, May 20 2008
SEOUL, South Korea-- State prosecutors demanded Tuesday a six- year prison term for Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-koo after the Supreme Court ordered a resentencing in the auto tycoon's embezzlement convition.
The Seoul High Court last year suspended a three- year prison term handed to Chung by a lower court while upholding his guilty verdict for embezzlement and breach of trust. Prosecutors had originally sought six years.
The high court also ordered Chung to do public service in the form of delivering lectures and writing newspaper and magazine articles on lawful management, and to fulfill a promise to donate 1 trillion won ($957 million) of assets to society.
The court suspended Chung's prison term for five years, meaning he would not go to jail if he stays out of trouble during the period.
In their appeal to the Supreme Court, prosecutors said that lecture and writing were not proper activities for sentences involving community service. The top court last month agreed and sent the case back to the high court for a new sentence.
On Tuesday, prosecutor Yoon Dae- jin called Chung's case "grave" and said the high court should deal with it sternly.
Chung's lawyers pleaded with the new presiding judge to maintain the suspended three-year prison term, citing the executive's contribution to South Korea's economy and his importance to Hyundai's planned overseas investments.
"I will make my utmost efforst to ensure (Hyundai Motor) becomes a world- class corportation if I am given leniency," Chung said at the end of the hearing.
The new sentence was set to be handed down June 3, according to the court.
Chung was found guilyt in February last year on charges that he raised a $100 million slush fund from affiliates. Prosecutors said much of the money was used to pay lobbyists to gain government favors and for personal use.
The presiding judge who handed down the suspended prison term said at the time that CHung was too important to the nation's economy to go to prison.
Hyundai Motor is South Korea's biggest automaker and a key driver of the world's 13th- largest economy. Hyundai and affiliate Kia Motors Corp. together form the world's sixth- largest automotive group.
Hyundai shares declined 1.3 percent Tuesday to close at 87,100 won ($83).
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Crooked Hyundai cheif gets no jail time from Korea high court
South Korea is working hard to crack down on corruption in its business sector, but the example-setting won't begin with Hyundai boss Chung Mong-koo. A Korean court gave Chung a three-year suspended sentence as punishment for embezzling monstrous sums of cash from the world's sixth largest automaker. Chung admitted to embezzling company money to pay off politicians, but that didn't stop the courts from going easy on the billionaire. The judge cited the fact that Chung used most of the embezzled money to run the business, but that answer isn't sitting well with many South Koreans looking for justice. Chung is a member of the chaebol, which is a group of families that control most of the wealth in South Korea. For all his wrong-doing, Chung spent a grand total of two months behind bars, and he's been ordered to donate $828 million. It's good to be rich apparently, at least in Korea.
Posted Jun 3rd 2008 4:30PM by Chris Shunk
[Source: Automotive News - sub. req'd, Photo by HONG JIN-HWAN/AFP/Getty]
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
$$$$ is the Free Jail ticket...?
A top Hyundai executive was convicted of delivering cash to a political candidate in 2002.
With charges flying - Hyundai executives are also suspected of embezzlement, tax evasion, misuse of public funds, and illegally transferring stock ownership - the company announced it would make a $1 billion donation to social-welfare programs to atone for illicit activities and restore public confidence. It also apologized for failing to meet its "social obligations" and causing public concern. But the Chungs failed to admit any wrongdoing, and their offer of charity apparently was not enough to deter prosecutors.)
With charges flying - Hyundai executives are also suspected of embezzlement, tax evasion, misuse of public funds, and illegally transferring stock ownership - the company announced it would make a $1 billion donation to social-welfare programs to atone for illicit activities and restore public confidence. It also apologized for failing to meet its "social obligations" and causing public concern. But the Chungs failed to admit any wrongdoing, and their offer of charity apparently was not enough to deter prosecutors.)
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