Police Conduct Search and Seizure at Namyang Dairy Chairman's Office... Investigation into Alleged Malicious Comment Posting
[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-yoon] The police conducted a search and seizure at the office of Hong Won-sik, chairman of Namyang Dairy Products. This was to verify whether Chairman Hong was aware of allegations that Namyang Dairy Products personnel had systematically posted defamatory comments about competitors.
According to the Jongno Police Station in Seoul on the 25th, on the 22nd, investigators from Jongno Police Station searched Chairman Hong's office at Namyang Dairy Products headquarters located in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. It is known that computers and smartphones were seized from the chairman's office.
Namyang Dairy Products is suspected of continuously posting defamatory comments about competitors on mom cafes by mobilizing a public relations agency. Earlier, the police searched a public relations agency in Busan in July last year and secured about 50 IDs that posted defamatory posts.
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The police are expected to decide whether to summon Chairman Hong after completing the analysis of the seized items.
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