
The case of Deputy Chief Prosecutor Park Sang-yong, including allegations of President Lee Jae-myeong's false accusation, was transferred.
The case in which Park Sang-yong, deputy chief prosecutor of the Incheon Regional Public Prosecution Office, who was investigating the Ssangbangwool remittance case to North Korea, was accused of falsely accusing President Lee Jae-myung by inducing Lee Hwa-young, former vice-governor of Gyeonggi Province, to make false statements, was transferred from the police to the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Office.
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Suspicions were raised that prosecutor Park Sang-yong, who was investigating the Ssangbangwool remittance case to North Korea, induced Lee Hwa-young, former vice-governor of Gyeonggi Province, to make a false statement and thereby falsely accused President Lee Jae-myung. Civic groups such as the People's Livelihood Economic Research Institute and Voice of Seoul reported Prosecutor Park and former President Yoon Seok-yeol to the National Investigation Headquarters of the National Police Agency, and Yeongdeungpo Police Station in Seoul transferred the case to the Corruption Investigation Office.
The case of Incheon Regional Public Prosecution Office Deputy Chief Prosecutor Park Sang-yong, who was accused of falsely accusing President Lee Jae-myung by inducing Lee Hwa-young, former vice-governor of Gyeonggi Province, to make false statements while investigating the Ssangbangwool remittance case to North Korea, has been transferred to the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Office (Corruption Investigation Office).
According to the police on the 14th, Yeongdeungpo Police Station in Seoul transferred the case of prosecutor Park's false accusation, abuse of power, and obstruction of the exercise of rights to the Corruption Investigation Office on the 6th of this month.
The current Corruption Investigation Office Act specifies crimes such as abuse of power by high-ranking public officials such as the president, judges, and prosecutors as targets of investigation.
Previously, on August 26, civic groups such as the People's Livelihood Economic Research Institute and the Voice of Seoul filed a complaint with the National Investigation Headquarters of the National Police Agency on charges of false accusation, abuse of power, obstruction of the exercise of rights, leakage of official secrets, and defamation under the Information and Communications Network Act against prosecutor Park and former President Yoon Seok-yeol and others involved.
The complaint is also related to the suspicion of the so-called 'salmon drinking party' in which Prosecutor Park Sang-yong, who was investigating the 'Ssangbangwool remittance case to North Korea' at the Suwon Regional Public Prosecutors' Office at the time, persuaded former Deputy Governor Lee and others.
The accuser claimed, "Prosecutor Park induced former Deputy Governor Lee, who was under arrest, to make a false statement by saying, 'Bail is only possible if there is a confession in which Lee Jae-myung becomes the main culprit and Lee Hwa-young becomes an accessory.'"
He also said, "Prosecutor Park Sang-yong is implying that he is under considerable pressure from the higher-ups, such as saying 'I will die' in the middle," and that former President Yoon and others are also suspected of being involved in false accusations.
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