Prosecutors sent back to police and requested supplementary investigation in the case of former Presidential Chief of Staff Jeong Jin-seok and former Presidential Secretary for General Affairs Yoon Jae-soon, who are suspected of ordering the wiping of Presidential Office PCs immediately after the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk-yeol. It comes a month after police referred the case without detention.
According to legal sources on the 6th, the Public Investigation Department 1 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Director General Yoon Su-jeong) on the 25th of last month requested police to conduct supplementary investigation in the case of former Deputy Minister Jeong and former secretary Yoon, who were referred on charges including damage to public electronic records, abuse of authority to interfere with the exercise of rights, and violations of the Presidential Records Act.
Former Deputy Minister Jeong and others are suspected of drawing up or ordering a plan to wipe about 1,000 PCs at the Presidential Office. Police believe they pursued a plan to wipe the Presidential Office's information equipment through venues such as a senior secretaries' meeting held immediately after the impeachment of the former president Yoon, and in February questioned the two in turn before referring them without detention.
During the special counsel's investigation into the insurrection, it was also learned that testimony was secured to the effect that former secretary Yoon ordered Presidential Office employees to discard PCs. The special counsel left open the possibility that related materials could be connected to the Dec. 3 martial law emergency and investigated, but, unable to reach a conclusion, handed the case over to police. With this request for supplementary investigation, the case has returned to the police stage.