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prosecution is known to have confirmed that one of the couples of Minister Chu made direct contact with military officials during his son's sick leave.

Minister Chu's aide is also known to have spoken to the military at the same time, and the prosecution is expected to investigate what happened.



Reporter Min Kyung-ho reports.



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Today (10th) morning, the Ministry of Justice, Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province.



Attorney General Choo Mi-ae did not answer the reporters' questions.



[There was a report that you called the unit directly, but if you said



anything

, please clarify, Minister.]

[Attorney General Chu Miae: (Because it seems contradictory to not being involved. Please clarify, Minister.)…

…

.] The



prosecution is known to have found out that one of the ministers' couples spoke to a military official in mid-June 2017.



It was confirmed through the interview records of the military solidarity integrated management system submitted by the Ministry of Defense.



The prosecution believes that a conversation about the extension of his son's son Seo-mo's sick leave has come and gone.



At that time, an aide to Minister Chu, who was the leader of the Democratic Party, was caught calling a senior unit officer of Mr. Seo's unit at this time.



The prosecution is trying to determine whether the aide's call is related to extended sick leave.



On June 25, 2017, the key issue of the suspicion of preferential treatment, the availability of a call between Mr. Seo and the soldier on duty will soon be revealed.



Seo argues that there was no call at the time, but as a result of the National Power of Congress, Kim Do-eup, as a result of confirming with a military communication official, the data storage period is usually two years, but the prosecution has requested that the data is still stored due to the availability of the server. He stated that he had received an answer to submit.



(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Won-hee Won)



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