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The Ministry of Public Relations concluded that Park Ji-won, former director of the National Intelligence Service, violated the Public Official Election Act last fall by spreading false information about former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who was then a powerful player in the opposition party.
The allegation that former Director Park intervened in the disclosure of the ‘accusation stock’ was dismissed.
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In September of last year, Park Ji-won, then head of the National Intelligence Service, said in an interview with the media, “I was the first person to open up the ‘Yoon Woo-jin case’ in the National Assembly. “He said.
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“(Park Ji-won, Director of the National Intelligence Service) I know the story behind the case of Yun Woo-jin, the former head of Yongsan Tax Office, but if you touch me, you can expose these things (he said).”
Former Yongsan Tax Office Chief Yoon Woo-jin is the older brother of Prosecutor Yoon Dae-jin, a close aide to former President Yoon Seok-yeol.
Park Ji-won, the former president, spoke as if the former president Seok-yeol Yoon had intervened in the bribery case of former chief Yoon Woo-jin, and said that he knew it all.
The High Commissioner’s Office for Crime Investigation concluded that the remarks were spreading false information about former President Yoon, who emerged as an opposition leader at the time.
Former President Park submitted a written response and materials denying the allegations, but the Ministry of Airlift and Security decided that he was slandering the presidential candidate without any basis.
However, since the Airborne Service can only prosecute prosecutors, judges, and high-ranking police officers, the case was handed over to the prosecution to hand over the case to the prosecution.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Public Investigation Division 1 took over the case and started reviewing it.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Airborne Affairs dismissed the allegation that former president Park Ji-won and former future unification party election counter-chairman Jo Seong-eun discussed the disclosure of the so-called ‘accusation stock’.
While conducting a written investigation into Park and calling Jo Seong-eun for investigation, it was confirmed that they met and talked on the phone several times, but it seems that they could not find any evidence of discussing the disclosure of the ‘accusers’.
This is Lee Jae-wook from MBC News.
Video coverage: Kang Jae-hoon / Video editing: Kim Chang-gyu
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