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military service broker who was falsely diagnosed with epilepsy and told how to get exempted from military service and took money has been arrested.

It is a nervous system disease that is difficult to accurately determine how severe the symptoms are, but the prosecution decided to expand the investigation by identifying the circumstances in which dozens of people tried to exempt from military service in this way.



Reporter Sohn Ki-jun reports.



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is a shared office located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.



It has been run by Mr. Gu Mo, a former professional military administrator, until recently.



Goo was recently arrested and indicted for giving information on how to evade military service.



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come for military service.] Mr. It is said to have been carried out.



It is known that he also had an office in another location and handled the necessary paperwork.



Gu was investigated for instructing his clients on how to obtain an exemption from a diagnosis of epilepsy.



He is said to have been a guardian and advised him to go to the hospital with him and tell him how to be diagnosed with epilepsy, or to pretend to have a seizure and call 119 to obtain related records.



It was aimed at the fact that it is not easy to accurately diagnose whether it is epilepsy.



[Military Manpower Administration official: Not only mental illness, but also because the methods are constantly becoming too diversified and intelligent...

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About 25% of military service irregularities cracked down by the Military Manpower Administration over the past 10 years are cases of faking mental illness.



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From February 2020 to August this year, only 7 cases have been confirmed to have escaped military service through Goo.



It is known that Mr. Goo made illegal profits of over 100 million won by receiving as many as tens of millions of won per person.



Prosecutors plan to expand their investigation into overall military service exemption corruption, including whether there is another military service broker in addition to the broker arrested this time.



(Video editing: Lee So-young, VJ: Lee Jun-young)