Police questioned Jeong In-hun, a Seoul Chongno District councilor, Thursday, about her alleged false registration of President Roh Moo-hyun on the party's primary electoral college list.
Jeong, also a member of the United New Democratic Party's presidential hopeful Chung Dong-young's camp, reportedly paid her son and his two friends 5,000 won per hour to log onto the party's Web site where they entered Roh and 97 other people's names as voters on Aug. 23 at a PC room in Seoul. Jeong's son and his friends were discovered hiding in Yangyang, Gangwon Province, Sunday. The three suspects were indicted Tuesday.
Since the registration requires personal information such as national identification number, anyone illegally using the president's name and number can be sentenced to up to three years in prison or fined 10 million won.
Police found the number of victims from the identity theft exceeds 500.
Jeong told the reporters that her deed came about from her personal hope that the increased number of voters would help promote her party. She said had she known the president's name was on the list, she would have never done such thing.
Police are also looking into whether Chung was behind the scheme.
Chung has previously denied any connection saying it was an individual supporter's overenthusiastic support and that she personally used the Uri party's member list to canvas more voters.