Arrest Warrant Requested for YouTuber for Illegal Camera Installation at Early Polling Station: Breaking News Update

The police are requesting an arrest warrant on charges of violating the Law on the Protection of Communications Secrets and trespassing… A decision will probably be made late at night

▲ On the 29th, at the Welfare Administration Center in Yucheon-dong, Dalseo-gu, Daegu, where the early voting booth has been installed, an election official from the district office is inspecting the illegal cameras by referring to the photos of the cameras illegal ones that had actually been installed in the early voting booth. Yonhap News The decision on the arrest of Mr. A, a YouTuber in his 40s, for whom an arrest warrant has been requested for illegally installing a camera at an early polling station for the April 10 general election, will be decided already on the 31st.

At 2pm this day, the Incheon District Court will hold a pre-arrest interrogation (substantive warrant review) of Mr. A, a man in his 40s, suspected of violating the Communications Secrets Protection Law and violating a building.

The decision whether to arrest Mr. A will be made late at night.

Incheon Nonhyeon Police Station arrested a suspect in connection with the incident of illegal installation of cameras at an early polling station on the 28th, and requested an arrest warrant on the 30th on charges of trespassing and breaking the law on the protection of communications secrets in nine locations found in Incheon.

Furthermore, the Yangsan Police Station in Gyeongsangnam-do arrested an accomplice, Mr. B, in his 70s and a resident of Yangsan City, who is a subscriber to Mr. A’s YouTube channel, without detention on charges of trespassing and violation of the rules. Law on the Protection of Communications Secrets.

The police explained: “We have confirmed that the suspect installed illegal cameras in around 40 locations, including the Happy Welfare Center and the gymnasium, which are supposed to be used as early voting and vote counting locations in the name of monitoring votes. electoral fraud”.

The crime locations of Mr A, a YouTuber in his 40s who secretly broke into polling stations for the April 10 general election and installed illegal cameras, were revealed to have been committed in more than 40 locations across the country.

The Incheon Nonhyeon Police Station announced that it had confirmed further crimes committed by Mr. A, who had requested an arrest warrant on charges of trespassing and violating the Law on the Protection of Communications Secrets.

Mr. A is suspected of secretly breaking into a total of 40 locations, including early voting polling stations for the April 10 general election across the country, including Seoul, Busan, Incheon, Ulsan, Gyeongnam, Daegu and the Gyeonggi Province, from the beginning of this month until recently and installing illegal cameras.

Initially, Mr. A’s camera installation locations were identified at 15 locations in Incheon and Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, but police investigations revealed that he had committed the crime across the country.

The police explained that Mr. A’s 40 installation locations include 26 early voting locations across the country where the Ministry of Public Administration and Security said suspected illegal camera equipment had been discovered in the afternoon of the previous day.

The police are widening their investigation, believing that there are illegal cameras installed by Mr A which have not yet been discovered.

Many of the cameras secretly installed by Mr A were disguised as communications equipment by attaching stickers with the names of specific telecommunications companies in the form of charging adapters.

It turned out that he had installed these cameras next to the water purifier to film the inside of the polling station.

The National Election Commission plans to conduct a final inspection again on the 4th of next month, the day before early voting.

Mr A told the police: “I was trying to monitor the electoral commission’s manipulation of early voter turnout” and “I decided the installation location I wanted to monitor based on my own standards of judgement.”

Journalist Shin Dong-won

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