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The Office of the President also moved the position of Secretary for Public Service Discipline under the Office of Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs, appointing former Staff Secretary Lee Won-mo, who lost in the general election , to this position instead of incumbent Secretary Lee Si-won.
Appointee Lee Won-mo was controversial when it was revealed that his wife, a civilian, boarded the presidential plane and accompanied First Lady Kim Kun-hee on her trip while he was staff secretary, and Secretary Lee Si-won , who was supposed to be replaced, is said to have spoken to the Ministry of National Defense during the process of retrieving investigative documents of the “Chae Sang-byeong case”. Due to suspicions, he is investigated by the Corruption Investigation Bureau.
Journalist Na Se-woong reports it.
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The Office of the President has decided to replace current Secretary Lee Si-won by placing the Secretary for Public Service Discipline under the new Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs Kim Joo-hyun.
Former personnel secretary Lee Won-mo, who ran and lost in the general election, has been appointed as the new secretary for public service discipline.
He is known to be close to the president and his wife, and the fact that his civil wife accompanied First Lady Kim Kun-hee’s trip and boarded the president’s private plane was confirmed by an MBC report, sparking controversy .
Former Secretary Lee Won-mo, who will return as secretary, and Secretary Lee Si-won, who will be replaced, are both former prosecutors.
The Senior Civil Servants’ Crime Investigation Bureau, which is investigating suspicions of external pressure in the “Chae Sang-byeong case”, has secured and investigated Secretary Lee Si-won’s phone records.
On August 2 last year, when prosecutors from the Ministry of National Defense recovered the documents of the “Chae Sang-byeong case” from the police, a phone call was made with Jae-eun Yoo, a legal officer from the Ministry of National Defense.
Previously, it was confirmed in MBC coverage that a subordinate, an administrator in the Office of the Secretary for Public Service Discipline, had called the police in advance and coordinated the recovery of the documents.
MBC asked Secretary Lee Si-won several times why he contacted the Ministry of National Defense, but received no response.
The secretary under investigation was suddenly replaced during the reorganization process, and there is an interpretation that the Office of the President was trying to reduce “judicial risk.”
There is a possibility that the Office of the President could use this as an excuse to oppose the Special Prosecutor Act, claiming that it is cooperating with the Bureau of Corruption Investigation investigations by barring Secretary Lee from public office.
This is Na Se-woong from MBC News.
Video editor: Kibeom Cho
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