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Air Force Chief of Staff Lee Seong-yong resigned, saying he felt heavy responsibility for the extreme choice of an Air Force noncommissioned officer who suffered sexual harassment. The Joint Investigation Team of the Ministry of National Defense seized and searched the military police suspected of negligent investigation.
This is Kim Tae-hoon, a defense reporter specializing in defense.
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Air Force Chief of Staff Lee Seong-yong expressed his resignation in a statement on the afternoon of the 4th, saying he was deeply responsible for the death of a non-commissioned officer who suffered sexual harassment.
An hour and a half later, President Moon Jae-in accepted the resignation.
[Park Soo-hyun / Chief of Public Communication at the Blue House: The procedure related to accepting resignation will be carried out as quickly as possible.]
One day after the President's order to look at even the highest-ranking officials was issued, he was effectively sacked.
As a result, former President Lee became the shortest Air Force chief in the history of the 255-day term since taking office in September last year.
Prior to President Lee's resignation, the Joint Investigation Team seized and searched the Air Force Military Police, the nucleus of the insolvent investigation of this case, in all directions.
The military police unit of the 20th Fighter Wing in Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do, which investigated Sgt. Jang Mo, the perpetrator of sexual harassment, only once, and the military police unit of the 15th Special Mission Wing in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, which did not report as a serious incident although Sergeant A suffered secondary assaults such as conciliation and mutilation. Investigators were dispatched to the Daejeon Air Force Headquarters Military Police Corps, which failed to properly command the air wing military police, to secure related materials.
It is known that the Joint Investigation Team will collect data such as audio recording files to prove the second offense and conduct a search and seizure and face-to-face investigation of the executives suspected of the second offense even during the weekend.