Police Send 30-Year-Old to Prosecution for Manipulating Likes on Post Alleging 'Yoon Started Daejang-dong'

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] A man in his 30s has been handed over to the prosecution on charges of posting a message online claiming that Yoon Seok-yeol, then the People Power Party candidate, was involved in the Daejang-dong preferential treatment suspicion case just before the presidential election, and manipulating the number of recommendations.

According to the police on the 24th, the Cyber Crime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency sent Mr. A, in his 30s, to the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office earlier this month with a recommendation for indictment. The charge is obstruction of business by computer or other means.

Mr. A is accused of posting on the online community 'MLB Park' in the early morning of March 7 a message mentioning the Busan Savings Bank loan corruption case, which President Yoon handled as a prosecutor in the Supreme Prosecutors' Office's Criminal Investigation Department, and alleging a connection with the Daejang-dong suspicion, and mechanically manipulating the number of recommendations.

The post is known to have received over 2,000 recommendations. When suspicions of recommendation manipulation and hacking arose, the community administrators reported the user who posted the message to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on charges including obstruction of business.

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