Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon is ratcheting up criticism day after day against special counsel Min Joong-ki's team, which indicted him over the alleged "Myung Tae-gyun polling scandal."
On the 7th, Mayor Oh posted on Facebook an article titled "Special counsel Min Joong-ki, why is there still no answer?" and sharply criticized the special counsel team. He said, "If you have faithfully served as a lackey of power and then cowardly hid, that silence is the clearest confession that this is the most vicious 'malicious, order-driven special counsel' in constitutional history."
Oh said, "Kang Hye-kyung, who confessed in court to fabrication; Kim Tae-yeol, who agreed to take the fall alone when trouble arose; and Myung Tae-gyun, who orchestrated the entire fraud. The special counsel that let them go without so much as laying a finger on them despite holding the evidence of these criminals," criticizing the team.
He said, "I thought the barbarity of sacrificing an innocent person despite knowing the real culprit existed only in history," adding, "Right now in the Republic of Korea, special counsel Min Joong-ki is reenacting that barbarity."
He went on, "Among investigative bodies, the worst in quality are those that swap the perpetrator and the victim," pointing out, "If they did so knowingly, this is not a special counsel but an accomplice."
He urged, "Abandon the delusion that power will be an eternal shield, and present an explanation that the public can accept right now."
After appearing at the first hearing on the 4th, Mayor Oh said at a press briefing on the 5th that "they left the perpetrator alone and indicted the victim," sharply criticizing special counsel Min Joong-ki's team. On the 6th, he also posted on Facebook and took aim at the team as a "malicious special counsel."