Police Conduct Search and Seizure at Senior Prosecutor's Office over 'Bribery Allegations'

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] The police have launched a forced investigation into a current senior prosecutor suspected of accepting bribes from a businessman.

On the 28th, according to the police, the Violent Crime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency recently conducted a search and seizure of the office of Senior Prosecutor A at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office on suspicion of violating the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act (Anti-Graft Act).

It is reported that during the investigation of a fisheries businessman suspected of fraud and embezzlement, the police detected circumstances indicating that Senior Prosecutor A and a police official at the superintendent level received bribes from the businessman. The police are expanding the investigation, considering the possibility that they accepted bribes from the fisheries businessman.

After analyzing the seized items, the police plan to summon Senior Prosecutor A for questioning. It is understood that Senior Prosecutor A was recently demoted and reassigned as a deputy senior prosecutor at a provincial prosecutor's office in the mid-level personnel reshuffle of the prosecution.

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