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group dinner earlier this month was revealed late. The next day after the dinner, a confirmed person was identified from the investigation team, which also disrupted the investigation schedule. However, the quarantine authorities caught the situation that the dinner party violated quarantine rules and started an investigation.



By Son Hyeong-an, staff reporter.



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A restaurant near the Central District Prosecutor's Office in Seocho-dong, Seoul, on the evening of the 4th, is the place where the dedicated investigation team investigating the Daejang-dong development had a group dinner.



16 prosecutors, including Chief Prosecutor Gyung-pil Yoo, gathered together.



On this day, arrest warrants were issued for key people in the case, including Kim Man-bae, the owner of Hwacheon Daewoo.



The problem is that the number of attendees has far exceeded the maximum of 10 people allowed for private gatherings in the metropolitan area.



It was confirmed that Kim Tae-hoon, who is the head of the investigation team, also joined the 4th deputy chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.



The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office claimed that they used two rooms at the time and ate eight people in each room.



However, on the 5th, the day after the dinner party, the first confirmed case of Corona 19 occurred in the investigation team.



Since then, a total of seven people, including Chief Prosecutor Yu, have been confirmed to have been confirmed serially.



For this reason, the investigation into suspect Kim Man-bae, who had to complete the investigation within 20 days after arrest, was suspended for three days.



While the Prime Minister's Office ordered to find out the truth through the Ministry of Justice, the quarantine authorities started investigating data to confirm whether quarantine rules were violated.



If the violation is confirmed, it is predicted that disciplinary action will be unavoidable by the prosecution itself.



In this situation, today (19th), one additional employee of the investigation team was confirmed.



The Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office apologized for the negligence and excluded Deputy Prosecutor Yoo Kyung-pil, who is known to have led the second position, from his work.



(Video coverage: Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Kim Jong-tae)