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One day after the National Intelligence Service filed a complaint against two former directors, Park Ji-won and Seo Hoon, the prosecution distributed the case and launched an investigation.



This is an exceptionally quick move, but reporter Hong Young-jae will tell you about the suspicions that the prosecution should reveal first.



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Park Ji-won and Seo-hoon were allotted to the Public Investigation Department of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in charge of public security cases within one day of filing.



Former Director Park Ji-won, who is accused of being involved in the attack of a public official in the West Sea, is investigated by the 1st Public Investigation Division, and former Director Seo Hoon, who is suspected of intervening in the North Korean defector repatriation case, is investigated by the 3rd Public Investigation Division.



Former Director Park is charged with unauthorized deletion of a report related to intelligence by the National Intelligence Service related to the death of an official of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, and former Director Seo is charged with forcibly and prematurely ending the investigation of two North Korean fishermen who expressed their intention to defect in 2019. .



The joint interrogation procedure, which normally takes more than several weeks, is completed in three or four days and hastily sent back to North Korea in five days.



Charges of abuse of power under the National Intelligence Service Act were applied to both of them, and former Director Park was charged with corruption of public electronic records, and former Director Seo was charged with writing false public documents.



As the NIS is known to have secured evidence and statements to prove the charges of the two former directors through its own investigation and attached them to the indictment, the prosecution is expected to secure additional evidence through a search and seizure in the near future.



Previously, President Yoon Seok-yeol repeatedly expressed his will to find out the truth about the two incidents.



[Yun Seok-yeol (last June 21): Many people are puzzled about the repatriation to North Korea and raised a lot of issues, but it seems they are looking into it.]



Senior officials of the Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office also asked the investigation team to quickly and clearly reveal the truth. As instructed, the prosecution's investigation is expected to accelerate further.



(Video editing: Jeong Seong-hoon, CG: Ryu Sang-soo, Hong Seong-yong)



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