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A former military service broker has been arrested for helping healthy young people avoid enlisting in the military.

It turned out that he received as many as tens of millions of won per person.

The prosecution plans to expand the investigation to see if there are other irregularities in the military service.



Reporter Lee Tae-kwon covered the story exclusively.



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



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It has been operated until recently by a former professional soldier-turned-administrative surnamed Gu, and a joint investigation team from the Military Manpower Administration and the Prosecutor's Office seized and searched the place last month.



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



[Building Manager: Usually, since you are doing the (military-related) administration that you are requesting, there are usually a lot of men in their early 20s who come to the military service.]



The suspect has an address in this shared office and has a meeting with the requesters who have come to exempt from military service. It is said to have been done.



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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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)