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A police officer investigating suspicions that the results of a viewer's vote were manipulated in a broadcast program that selects members of an idol group is speeding up the investigation by further seizure. It is known that you have obtained a recording file of the operation status.

This information will be told by journalist Bae Jung-hoon.

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It is known that the police are investigating a recording file of the operation status on the mobile phone of the producer of MNET's audition program 'Produce X 101'.

The recordings are said to contain not only the latest broadcasts, but also operational conditions of previous seasons.

Police officials said it was correct to conduct a second seizure search on CJ E & M's offices on the 12th, even though they could not confirm the details of whether or not to obtain evidence of manipulation.

He also summoned multiple crews to investigate and secured and analyzed mobile phones.

Produce X101, which selects an idol group member by viewer vote, revealed 11 successful candidates through live broadcasting on the 19th, and alleged regularity was found in the tickets obtained by 20 trainees who participated in live broadcasting.

[Mathematics official: (a vote) I find a pattern that is hard to come out mathematically, but I can explain it if you think that it is obtained by first calculating the vote rate and then multiplying by a proper constant.]

The police are reported to consider applying a "disruption charges" when the production team confirms that the rankings of the participants are different from the actual results based on the fabricated voting results.

(Video coverage: Park Hyuncheol, Video editing: Jeon Mingyu)