Lee Jong-ho, former CEO of Black Pearl Invest and a close aide to former first lady Kim Keon-hee, was questioned Thursday by the special counsel team investigating her.

The session took place in the afternoon at the team’s Seoul office, after a planned session in the morning was canceled when Lee failed to appear.

Lee is alleged to have managed Kim’s accounts during the Deutsch Motors stock manipulation case. 

He is also accused of accepting 80 million won, or about 59-thousand U.S. dollars, from the scheme’s lead operator in exchange for promising to use his influence to secure a suspended sentence through former President Yoon Suk Yeol and Kim.

He was taken into custody earlier this month after a court granted the special counsel’s request and issued a detention warrant, citing concerns over the destruction of evidence.