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The Airborne Investigations Office, which is investigating suspicions of outside pressure in the Marine Corps Chae Sang-byeong incident, has served a summons on Marine Corps Commandant Kim Gye-hwan.
Another key figure, Yoo Jae-eun, a legal affairs official at the Ministry of National Defense, was recalled three days later and investigated for more than 12 hours.
This is journalist Jeong Sang-bin.
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The Corruption Investigation Bureau notified Marine Corps Commandant Kim Gye-hwan to come forward as a suspect and be investigated.
We are coordinating the timing of participation and it is said that it will happen as early as this week.
Commander Kim is suspected of having exerted external pressure from superiors on the Marine Corps investigative team.
Park Jung-hoon, head of the Marine Corps Investigation Team at the time, says he heard from Commander Kim that the VIP was enraged.
Commander Kim, however, denies ever having said such a thing.
The Corruption Investigation Bureau has decided to summon Park Kyung-hoon, former acting head of the Investigation Headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense, as a suspect and to investigate as early as the day after tomorrow.
It appears the focus of the investigation will be to recover the files handed over to the police and determine how the review findings were reduced from the original eight to two.
Jae-eun Yoo, a legal affairs official at the Ministry of National Defense, was recalled to the Corruption Investigation Bureau after three days and was interrogated for more than 12 hours yesterday.
[유재은/국방부 법무관리관]
“<회수 당일에 이시원 비서관과는 어떤 내용으로 통화를 하신 건가요?> There’s nothing else to answer. <대통령실 지시 있었던 건 맞습니까?> …….”
On the day the case documents were recovered last year, the Corruption Investigation Bureau obtained phone records between Legal Affairs Officer Yoo Jae-eun and Presidential Public Discipline Office Secretary Lee Si-won .
Chief Legal Officer Yoo reportedly said he did not remember what the call was about and that it may or may not have been related to the Marine Corps case.
The Corruption Investigation Bureau pays attention to the fact that on the day the investigation documents were recovered, staff from the President’s Office appeared throughout the process.
The administrator of the Public Service Discipline Secretariat called the police to coordinate the recovery of the case in advance, and his superior, Secretary Lee Si-won, spoke with Legal Affairs Manager Yoo.
During this process, Justice Director Yoo told the police that he would “recover the case documents.”
MBC asked Secretary Lee Si-won if he had a phone call with Legal Affairs Officer Yoo Jae-eun regarding the withdrawal of the Marine Corps case, but Secretary Lee did not respond.
This is Jeong Sang-bin from MBC News.
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