Prosecutors Summon Cheon Junho as Witness in 'Gyeonggi Governor's North Korea Visit Document Leak' Case

The prosecution investigating the allegations of illegal remittances to North Korea by Ssangbangwool Group has reportedly summoned Assemblyman Cheon Jun-ho, the chief secretary to the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, as a witness.

According to legal sources on the 25th, the Criminal Division 6 of Suwon District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Kim Young-nam) recently requested Assemblyman Cheon to appear as a witness in connection with the 'leak of official documents related to the Gyeonggi Province Governor's visit to North Korea' case.

The 'Gyeonggi Province Governor's Visit Official Document Leak Case' involves an incident earlier this year where Shin, former director of the Gyeonggi Province Peace Cooperation Bureau, at the request of Mr. A, a staff member of the Democratic Party leader's office, asked Mr. B, a temporary public official of Gyeonggi Province, to look for official documents from around 2019 in which Gyeonggi Province requested North Korea to invite the governor for a visit.

Mr. B accessed the internal network of the provincial office from his workplace and found the official document titled 'Request for Invitation of Gyeonggi Province Delegation for Consultation on National Cooperation Projects and Promotion of Friendship' and the 2019 status report on the distribution of the inter-Korean exchange cooperation fund, which he then gave to former Director Shin. Shin subsequently informed Mr. A of the contents, according to the investigation.

The prosecution believes that Mr. A requested the related documents to verify whether then-Governor Lee Jae-myung, who is now the party leader, was involved in the Ssangbangwool illegal remittance allegations.

It is reported that the prosecution requested Assemblyman Cheon, as the chief secretary to the party leader, to appear to confirm the facts, including whether he was aware of the document leak incident and whether he instructed others to review the contents of the documents.

Assemblyman Cheon criticized the investigation on his Facebook on the same day, stating, "I express regret over the political prosecution's behavior of conducting an unreasonable investigation simply because I serve as the chief secretary."

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