Police Investigate Complainant in Alleged Preferential Treatment of Lee Seong-yoon Prosecutor General's Official Vehicle

Yoon Young-dae, co-representative of the Speculation Capital Monitoring Center, who filed a complaint against Kim Jin-wook, head of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, and others are responding to reporters' questions as they appear for a complainant investigation at the Anti-Corruption and Public Crime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Mapo-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the 3rd.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] The police conducted a complainant investigation on the head of a civic group who reported that Kim Jin-wook, the Chief of the High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Office, providing conveniences such as an official car during his meeting with Lee Seong-yoon, the Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, constitutes bribery.

The Anti-Corruption and Public Crime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 3rd that they summoned Yoon Young-dae of the Speculation Capital Monitoring Center for questioning.

Earlier, the Speculation Capital Monitoring Center filed a complaint with the National Investigation Headquarters of the Police Agency on the 13th of last month, alleging that Chief Kim providing an official Genesis car to Chief Prosecutor Lee and conducting a meeting without formal entry procedures amounted to bribery and obstruction of official duties by deception.

Chief Prosecutor Lee had previously entered the Corruption Investigation Office building on March 7th in Chief Kim's official Genesis car and underwent questioning.

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