Coupang CEO Rogers to appear for police questioning Friday
Harold Rogers
Harold Rogers, interim chief executive officer of Coupang Corp., is scheduled to undergo police questioning this week over allegations related to a massive data breach at the e-commerce company, sources said Thursday.
Rogers, who defied two previous police summonses, is set to appear before a Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency team at 2 p.m. Friday after returning to Korea last Wednesday, according to the sources.
He had left the country on Jan. 1, a day after attending a two-day parliamentary hearing on the leak of the retail giant's personal information of about 33 million users.
Police have been investigating Coupang over its announcement that the suspect behind the breach had saved personal information of only around 3,000 users, a claim the science ministry criticized as one-sided.
Police are expected to question Rogers about the company's internal probe into the data breach and examine whether there were attempts to destroy evidence.
Rogers is also accused of violating a law on testimony before the Assembly over his remarks during the hearing that the company met the suspect at the National Intelligence Service's (NIS) instructions. The NIS has denied the claim.