Three men linked to a mafia-involved real estate deal that is threatening to take down a front-runner for president of South Korea die within two months of each other
- Three men who apparently had access to damning information have died
- Two of the men took their own lives and the third person died of a heart attack
- Comes as South Korea's presidential candidates began campaigning
Three men who may have had access to potentially damning information concerning a South Korean presidential hopeful have died within two months of each other.
The potential whistleblowers allegedly held information about a mafia-involved real estate deal that took place while the nominee of the Democratic Party Lee Jae-myung was mayor of Seongnam.
Two of the men, who worked at the Seongnam Development Corporation, took their own lives last December before they were to be interrogated for their roles in bribes that were connected to the real estate project in 2015.
Their deaths came just before a third man died last month from a heart attack.
It comes as South Korea's presidential candidates Lee Jae-myung and Yoon Suk-yeol, from the conservative main opposition People Power Party, formally began campaigning in what is set to be the tightest race in 20 years between its two main parties.
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