Seoul police station raided over document leak
Prosecutors raided a Seoul police station Wednesday as part of their widening investigation into snowballing allegations that a former aide to President Park Geun-hye intervened in state affairs without holding an official position in government.
The investigation came after the local daily Segye Times reported Friday that Jeong Yun-hoe met with presidential officials to oust Kim Ki-choon, the current chief of staff to Park, citing an internal document of Cheong Wa Dae dated Jan. 6.
Jeong, who served as the president's chief of staff when she was a lawmaker, holds no official title in the Park administration, but regularly met with incumbent presidential secretaries and received briefings from them, according to the report.
The presidential office filed a libel suit against the reporters and asked the prosecution to look into whether the author of the internal report violated the law on the management of public records.
A team of investigators from Seoul District Prosecutors' Office obtained documents from the Dobong Police Station where a police officer suspected to have drawn up and leaked the document is currently working.
The investigators also swooped on the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on suspicion that the document was leaked from one of the agency's departments.
The prosecution office said it plans to call in the police officer surnamed Park within this week for questioning. He was banned from leaving the country after the probe began. (Yonhap)