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Just before the search and seizure, the statement of former general manager Yoo Dong-gyu that Director Jin-sang Jeong called and told him to throw away his cell phone, we have told him.

If this is true, it means that we were informed in advance to destroy the evidence, but the prosecution is investigating whether investigation information has leaked from the inside.



Correspondent Kim Kwan-jin.



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On September 29, last year, when the prosecution organized a dedicated investigation team and conducted an extensive search and seizure on Hwacheon Daeyu, etc.



The former general manager Yoo Dong-gyu, who had been raided and seized, threw his cell phone out the window before the investigation team entered.



Yoo, the former general manager, testified to the prosecution that that day, the head of the political affairs coordination office, Jeong Jin-sang, the leader of the Democratic Party, called and told him of the search and seizure in advance and told him to throw the phone away.



The next day, Kim Yong-yong, vice president of the Institute for Democracy, called and said, "I will run away unconditionally and hold on for ten days."



He also claimed that 'there was a conversation between the chief of the Central Prosecutor's Office and Chief Jung' and he insisted on hospitalization.



Prosecutors suspect that since the search and seizure occurred 11 days before the election of the Democratic Party presidential candidate, Chief Executive Officer Jeong and Vice President Kim, who are close to Lee Jae-myung, desperately tried to prevent the arrest of Yoo and the search and seizure of mobile phones at the end of the election.



Prosecutors are also looking into suspicions of leaks, seeing that investigation information has leaked out to Director Jeong and Deputy Director Kim.



Last year, the prosecution's investigation team could not secure the cell phone that Yoo threw away, but the police found it within a week.



At that time, the investigation team apologized belatedly after announcing, "As a result of the CCTV check, there was no fact that the window was opened before or after the search and seizure," the suspicion is rising again as to whether there was another story.



(Video coverage: Kim Tae-hoon, video editing: Lee Seung-hee)



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