Interim CEO of Coupang appears for police questioning over perjury allegations
Harold Rogers, interim chief executive of Coupang, appears for police questioning at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's office in western Seoul, Friday. Yonhap
The interim chief executive of Coupang, Harold Rogers, appeared before police Friday to be questioned about perjury allegations related to his testimony to lawmakers late last year, marking his second police questioning in a week.
Police seek to question Rogers about allegations that he gave false testimony under oath about the company's internal investigation into a massive data leak during a parliamentary hearing in December.
"Coupang will continue to fully cooperate with all government investigations. We will also faithfully and thoroughly cooperate with the police investigation today," Rogers told reporters as he arrived at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's office in western Seoul.
He did not respond to questions about the allegations.
Rogers told lawmakers during the hearing that Coupang conducted its own probe into a Chinese national suspected of involvement in the breach and confiscated his laptop at the instructions of the National Intelligence Service.
The intelligence agency, however, denied the claim, prompting a parliamentary committee to file a complaint seeking an investigation into Rogers, as well as six other former and incumbent Coupang executives, for committing perjury.
Rogers earlier underwent a 12-hour interrogation session last Friday over allegations of obstruction of justice in connection with the data leak that has affected more than 33 million customers in Korea.
Rogers had defied two previous police summonses and left Korea in early January. He returned to Seoul days before the first interrogation.