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The Special Prosecutor's Office investigating the death of the late Air Force Sgt. Ye-Ram Lee is investigating Jeon Ik-Soo, the head of the Air Force Headquarters' Justice Department, who was designated as the head of the poor initial investigation, as a suspect.
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Reporter Sohee Han, how is the investigation going?
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Director Jeon Ik-soo attended the special prosecutor's office at 1:30 pm today (24th) and has been under investigation for over 7 hours.
The former head of the Air Force's legal organization, who oversees the military prosecution of subordinate units, is suspected of causing the death of this sergeant by poorly handling the initial investigation at the time of the sexual assault case in March last year.
In particular, there have been claims that the group was ganged up even after being instructed by the Air Force Chief of Staff to review the arrest of Sgt.
It is reported that the former chief's side never ordered an investigation without detention during the special prosecutor's investigation, and insisted that it is not a matter for the Chief Justice to decide whether to detain the person involved in the case.
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It turned out that the 'Jeon Ik-soo recording file', which was previously raised along with the suspicion of refusing to investigate, was found to be forged.
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Yes, it was revealed as a result of the special prosecutor's investigation that the recording files of the Air Force judges, which were the main basis of the investigation, were manipulated by the informant, lawyer Kim Mo.
While attending the special prosecutor's office, Jeon insisted that the allegations raised by the military human rights center were 100% false.
[Jeon Ik-soo / Chief Justice of the Air Force: Deceiving the National Assembly and the media by distributing false facts with forged transcripts and forged recording files...
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Although one of the main grounds for the suspicion of refusing to investigate has disappeared, the special prosecutor's team is focusing on finding other grounds, such as asking why it took nearly two months from Sergeant Jang's transfer to the military prosecution's summons.
The investigation of the former chief of staff following yesterday's former Air Force Chief of Staff Lee Seong-yong is expected to become a watershed in the special prosecutor's investigation with less than 20 days left.
(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Hwang Ji-young)