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Recently, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office secured and analyzed the public mobile phone used by spokespersons during the days of Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. And a few days later, the related data was transferred to the Airborne Service, which investigates the allegations of accusation. There are several controversies surrounding this process.



Reporter Won Jong-jin will explain.



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29th of last month, the Inspection Department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office took over the public cell phone kept by the Supreme Prosecutor's Office spokesman Seo In-seon.



This cell phone was also used by Prosecutors Kwon Soon-jeong and Lee Chang-su, who served as spokespersons for the Supreme Prosecutors' Office during the days of Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol.



The Supreme Prosecutor's Inspection Department said that it had obtained the cell phone used by the spokesperson to confirm the allegation of the accused and the documentary response to the case of former President Yoon's mother-in-law.



A search and seizure warrant was not issued during this process.



There are also allegations that the Inspection Department pressured the submission of cell phones, but the Inspection Department denied that there was such a fact.



However, on the 5th, it was revealed that the Airborne Service, which is investigating the allegation of the accuser, seized and searched the Supreme Prosecutor's Inspection Department, and received these mobile phone forensic data.



Regarding this process, it was pointed out that the Ministry of Air Transport, which is investigating the allegation of the accuser, cooperated with the Supreme Prosecutor's Inspection Department in advance to secure the cell phone information of the Supreme Prosecutor's spokesperson.



In response, the Ministry of Airborne Affairs refuted the claim that it was just that the mobile phone information was confiscated through due process, and that the data was expediently handed over from the Supreme Prosecutor's Inspection Department was groundless.



Separately, there are also criticisms that the prosecution and the investigative agencies of the Ministry of Airlift and Public Service both look into the public mobile phone, which is the communication medium between the media and the spokesperson, itself results in monitoring the media's reporting activities.



Former spokesman Kwon Soon-jung also criticized the need for a convincing explanation, saying, "Isn't he trying to inspect the overall relationship with the media?"



(Video editing: Hwang Ji-young)