Police Officials Arrested and Indicted for Accepting Bribes and Entertaining

Published 12 Apr.2023 11:19(KST)

Updated 07 Aug.2025 16:02(KST)

Active police officials accused of deliberately delaying the application for arrest warrants after receiving requests related to an investment fraud case have been brought to trial.

The Criminal Division 3 of Daegu District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Jo Yong-woo) on the 12th indicted former Daegu Police Agency Cyber Investigation Division Chief A (47, Senior Superintendent) and former Cyber Investigation Team Leader B (48, Superintendent) without detention on charges including violation of the Act on the Prohibition of Improper Solicitation and Graft. Additionally, police officer C (40, Inspector), who is already in custody, was further indicted on the same charges, and brokers D (69) and E (44) were indicted with detention.

Police Officials Arrested and Indicted for Accepting Bribes and Entertaining

A and B are accused of deliberately delaying the application for an arrest warrant for a programmer of an overseas futures investment site by one week around July 11 last year, after receiving a request from broker D while at the Daegu Police Agency Cyber Terrorism Team.

B is also accused of, upon broker D's request in September last year, causing the investigation team to reconsider the application for a search and seizure warrant, and of leaking forensic phone data and accomplice testimonies to D between October and November of the same year (official secret leakage).

C is accused of receiving entertainment worth about 10 million KRW and luxury bags worth about 7 million KRW at a nightlife establishment upon requests from E (bribery). Separately, he was indicted last month on charges including accepting a bribe of 20 million KRW from a person he met during an investigation of a fake luxury goods sales fraud case and assisting in withdrawing criminal proceeds.

D was indicted on charges of receiving 20 million KRW in cash and liquor worth about 1.1 million KRW from the operator of the overseas futures investment site between August and November last year, in exchange for confirming police investigation status and requesting to suppress the investigation. E is accused of receiving 30 million KRW and providing entertainment worth about 10 million KRW to C and others between June and October last year, upon requests from the same site operator to confirm investigation status.

A prosecutor stated, “The reality of bribery, which the police detected but did not investigate, was revealed during the prosecution’s investigation, exposing the collusive relationship between police officers and brokers.”