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Deputy Attorney General Lee Yong-gu, who is charged with assaulting a taxi driver and requesting that the video containing the situation be deleted, returned home early today (31st) after being investigated by the police for about 19 hours.
Deputy Minister Lee did not respond to reporters' questions.
Correspondent Kim Sang-min.
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car that comes up from an underground parking lot is a vehicle in which Lee Yong-gu, the Deputy Attorney General of Justice, has attended the police since yesterday morning and was investigated.
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Vice Minister Lee returned home at around 3:20 am today, about 19 hours after he appeared at the police station, and left the police station without answering reporters' questions.
In November of last year, three weeks before he was appointed as vice minister, Lee is accused of offering a settlement money to a taxi driver who was drunk and assaulted and demanding that the black box video containing the scene be erased.
At that time, the police applied the charge of 'simple assault' to Lee, but ended the internal investigation without making a case.
The investigation into the so-called 'look after investigation' allegation is also accelerating.
Following the fact that the investigator in charge pretended not to know about the existence of the assault video, the situation was revealed one after another that the executives knew that Vice Minister Lee was mentioned as the first candidate for the Airborne Division, and the police recently accused three Seocho Police Station officials on charges of negligence of special duties. I put on it.