Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office Investigates 'Leak of Park Won-soon Allegation' Case from Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office

Daegum Assigned to Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office on 21st
Cases Involving Police, Blue House, and Seoul City Officials Also Transferred to Northern District Prosecutors' Office
Investigation of Sexual Harassment Aiding Charges Directed to Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency

Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office.

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Seok-jin] The Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office will investigate the case in which senior officials of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office were accused of leaking the fact that the late former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon was accused of sexual harassment.

On the 25th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office announced that it had assigned the case of public official secret leakage accusations against officials of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office to the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office.

Earlier, the civic group Halbindan and the Lawyers for Human Rights and Unification of Korea filed a complaint with the Supreme Prosecutors' Office against Seoul Central District Prosecutor Lee Sung-yoon, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Kim Wook-jun, and Head of the Women and Children Crime Investigation Department Yoo Hyun-jung for leaking the fact that former Mayor Park was accused.

The representative of the sexual harassment victim of former Mayor Park called Deputy Chief Prosecutor Yoo on the 7th of last month, requesting a meeting, stating that they planned to file a complaint against former Mayor Park. However, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Yoo judged that meeting with a lawyer before the complaint was officially filed was inappropriate and declined.

Subsequently, the victim filed a complaint against former Mayor Park with the police on the 8th, and during that period, circumstances suggesting that related information was leaked emerged, raising suspicions that officials of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office might have leaked the information.

However, the related parties maintain that they did not report such information to higher authorities such as the Supreme Prosecutors' Office nor disclosed it externally.

Meanwhile, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office announced on the same day that the cases related to the death of former Mayor Park, including accusations of public official secret leakage, which had been assigned to the Criminal Division 2, were transferred on the 21st to the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office, which oversees related unnatural death cases.

Additionally, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office has issued investigative guidance to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency regarding accusations including aiding and abetting sexual assault related to allegations that former and current secretaries of the Seoul City government ignored the victim's complaints and transfer requests for years.

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