Police Transfer Plastic Surgery Clinic Director to Prosecution for Supplying Drugs to Porsche Driver Involved in Drugged Driving Incident

Suspected Violation of Narcotics Control Act... Abuse of Propofol
Nursing Assistant Who Supplied Drugs to Porsche Driver Worked at the Clinic

The director of a plastic surgery clinic has been handed over to the prosecution while in detention in connection with allegations of supplying propofol to a Porsche driver who caused a crash after driving under the influence of drugs and falling from Banpo Bridge in Seoul.

On May 19, the Yongsan Police Station in Seoul announced that it had referred a man in his 40s, identified as Director A of a plastic surgery clinic located in Seocho-gu, Seoul, to the prosecution on May 15 for violating the Narcotics Control Act.

Mr. B, a former nursing assistant accused of handing drugs to a Porsche driver, is attending a pre-arrest hearing at the Seoul Western District Court on March 10. Photo by Yonhap News

Director A is accused of abusing medical narcotics by administering excessive amounts of propofol to more than 10 patients who visited his clinic since August last year, and by administering the drug even in situations where anesthesia was not necessary.

The police have also charged Director A with failing to properly fulfill his duty to manage and supervise narcotics within the clinic. The clinic in question is the workplace of former nursing assistant B, who is accused of providing propofol to the Porsche driver involved in the Banpo Bridge crash. On the day of the accident, B was seated in the passenger seat while the Porsche driver remained in a parking lot of a building in Seocho-gu. Many of the propofol vials found in the vehicle at the time of the accident were confirmed to have come from Director A's clinic.

In March, the police searched the clinic and secured prescriptions and records of pharmaceutical in-and-out flows as part of their ongoing investigation.

The Porsche driver involved in the accident has already been indicted on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act, driving under the influence of drugs under the Road Traffic Act, and causing injury by dangerous driving. Former nursing assistant B, who is accused of supplying the propofol, has also been brought to trial on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act.

A police official stated, "The investigation related to the Porsche driver has largely been concluded."

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