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Prosecutors raided the Jung-gu Office in Seoul.

As the local elections were over, the investigation into the election law violations began in earnest.

Among the elected candidates, 51 were included in the investigation.



More details will be provided by reporter Ahn Hee-jae.



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Prosecutors' investigators stormed the Jung-gu Office in Seoul just hours after the counting ended.



A compulsory investigation into the accusation by the National Election Commission that Jung-gu Commissioner Seo Seo-ho had been conducting a pre-election campaign has begun.



[(Have you seen any part of the violation of the election law?) …

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This is an internal e-mail sent by an employee of the Jung-gu Office to the employees of the local community center in December of last year.



It is written as “the mayor’s instructions” to arrange a place for the mayor to attend the year-end meeting and to promote performance sharing by program.



It also guides you to refer to the meeting of the mayor presided over by the mayor.



The mayor of Seo-gu explained that the event was a legal event, but the National Election Commission reported that the mayor had led the pre-election campaign and reported it to the prosecution.



Mayor Seo-gu, who was running for the Democratic Party, was defeated this time.



As the presidential election and local elections are finished, there are speculations that the prosecution has started the investigation into the election case, which has been silent.



More than 1,000 people were arrested by the prosecution during this election period, and 51 elected including lawmakers Lee Jae-myung and Ahn Cheol-soo, Gyeonggi governor-elect Kim Dong-yeon, and Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Superintendent Jo Hee-yeon were also included in the investigation.



In Gyeongsangbuk-do County, the village head was arrested after a lot of proxy voting was confirmed, in which a voter who could not go to a polling place voted by mail at home was confirmed.



The statute of limitations for cases related to the June local election is December 1.



According to the revised Criminal Procedure Act, the Prosecutor's Office announced that it would cooperate closely with the National Election Commission to investigate as the right to object to the accusation will be abolished from September.



(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, video editing: Yoon Tae-ho)