Police Assign Lee Dong-gwan Defamation Case Over School Violence Report Denial to Yongsan Police Station

The police have launched a full-scale investigation into Lee Dong-gwan, the Special Advisor for External Cooperation at the Presidential Office, who denied reports of his son's school violence controversy as 'fake news.'

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According to the police on the 5th, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency assigned the case, in which the civic group Committee for the Protection of the Common People's Livelihood (Seominwi) filed a complaint against Lee for defamation, obstruction of business, and coercion, to the Yongsan Police Station in Seoul.

Seominwi filed the complaint with the police on the 30th of last month, stating that Lee defamed the victim students and their families, as well as the teacher who raised suspicions, by claiming the reports of his son's school violence were fake news.

Regarding the MBC 'Straight' broadcast that reported on his son's school violence controversy, Lee stated in a press release on the 8th of last month, "It is a one-sided claim by Jeon Gyeong-won, a teacher at Hanago High School, who raised suspicions of school corruption to avoid personal disciplinary action," and added, "It is a typical malicious fake news frame reported without filtering."

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