Special Committee on Fabricated Indictments to Conduct On-Site Investigation of Board of Audit and Inspection, Financial Supervisory Service on the 23rd

Verification of Prosecutorial Misconduct in the Ssangbangwool Investigation and Others

The National Assembly's "Special Committee for the Parliamentary Investigation into Alleged Political Prosecution and Fabricated Indictments under the Yoon Seok-yeol Administration" has decided to conduct on-site investigations of the Board of Audit and Inspection and the Financial Supervisory Service on April 23.

On the 20th, at the National Assembly, a roll-call vote in favor was held regarding the implementation of on-site investigations by the Board of Audit and Inspection and the Financial Supervisory Service during the Special Committee on the National Inspection of Alleged Political Prosecution and Fabricated Indictments under the Yoon Seok-yeol Administration. Photo by Yonhap News Agency

On the 20th, the committee held a general meeting and, led by the Democratic Party of Korea, adopted the agenda item "Implementation of On-site Investigations of the Board of Audit and Inspection and the Financial Supervisory Service." The motion was put to a roll-call vote amid opposition from the People Power Party, and it passed with 12 in favor, 6 against, and 1 abstention out of a total of 19 members present.

The committee plans to focus its investigation on the digital forensics conducted by the Board of Audit and Inspection during its audit of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission and the suspected shooting of a civil servant in the West Sea.

For the Financial Supervisory Service, the investigation is expected to center on allegations that it helped cover up stock price manipulation involving Ssangbangwool.

On this day, the committee also voted on requests to add or withdraw witnesses and persons of interest. The list of additional witnesses and persons of interest includes Eom Hee-jun, a prosecutor at the Gwangju High Prosecutors' Office and investigator/prosecutor on the second team for the Daejang-dong development case; Kim Baek-shin, a prosecutor at the Daegu High Prosecutors' Office; and key defendants in the Daejang-dong case, including Nam Wook, Jung Young-hak, and Kim Man-bae.

The People Power Party requested the inclusion of Lee Jong-seok, Director of the National Intelligence Service, and Yoo Dong-gyu, former Head of Planning at Seongnam Development Corporation, as witnesses, but these requests were not accepted.

The committee also withdrew the witness status for Song Kyung-ho, former Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office; Cho Sang-jun, former Director of Planning and Coordination at the National Intelligence Service; Jeong Il-kwon, Chief Prosecutor at the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors' Office; and Park Sang-yong, prosecutor at the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office.

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