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Special edition, the fire department acting chief’s office is also under pressure… Firefighting ‘top line’ investigation

On the 6th, the ‘Itaewon Accident Special Investigation Headquarters’ will be installed in the Mapo Building of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Mapo-gu, Seoul. 2022.11.6/News 1

The Special Investigation Headquarters (Special Edition) of the National Police Agency, which is investigating the Itaewon disaster, is investigating Nam Hwa-young, acting head of the Fire Agency (deputy head of the Fire Agency), on charges of directing false public documents .

Nam has been acting as head of the National Fire Agency after being appointed deputy head of the Fire Agency, replacing Lee Heung-gyo, who was relieved of command last month.

The special issue, which focused on police investigations such as Yongsan Police Station and Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, expands its assessment knife to the Fire Agency’s ‘top line’ following Yongsan Fire Station and Seoul Fire and Disaster Headquarters.

According to News 1’s comment on the 26th, the special edition searched and seized the General Situation Room 119 of the National Fire Agency in the Sejong Government Complex the day before, and at that time, the actor’s office was also seized and searched. It is known that the search and seizure warrant for the post of deputy man was identified as ‘accusing a teacher of writing false public documents’.

The special issue focuses on investigating whether the central emergency control group (control group), which was in charge of front-line fire fighting personnel and operation control and support at the time of the Itaewon disaster, was functioning normally.

The special issue tries to discover the facts by securing statements about whether the male deputy intervened in the process of falsifying official documents as if the fire department had organized and operated the control group correctly at the time of the Itaewon disaster.

The special version is expected to determine the need for a subpoena investigation by securing the content of the conversations that fire department officials had in the process of forming a control group through social networking services (SNS), etc.

It is known that the National Fire Agency took the position, in the process of establishing a control group, that it was already in operation because an earthquake occurred in Goesan, Chungcheongbuk-do on the day of the accident, and it was expanded and to operate as usual after the Itaewon disaster.

Meanwhile, in the morning of the same day, the special version called Choi Seong-beom, the chief of Yongsan Fire Station in Seoul, to be investigated as a suspect.

(Seoul = News 1)