Prosecutor Park Sang-yong, who investigated former Gyeonggi Province Vice Governor for Peace Lee Hwa-young's "SSANGBANGWOOL remittance to North Korea allegations" case, appeared before police on the 29th as a complainant against Lim Eun-jeong, head of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office.
According to police and others, the Songpa Police Station in Seoul is questioning Prosecutor Park from 10 a.m. that day. Park filed a complaint against Chief Prosecutor Lim in March on charges of defamation.
Lim wrote on the prosecution's intranet, "No prosecutor would disagree with President Lee Jae-myung's remark that the manipulation of evidence and cases by investigative agencies is worse than robbery or murder." She then added, "The Seoul High Prosecutors' Office is conducting a fact-finding probe related to the remittances to the North," indirectly taking aim at Prosecutor Park.
At the time, Prosecutor Park distributed a statement to the media, saying, "No matter how anxious and desperate for results Chief Prosecutor Lim may have been, even after becoming a chief prosecutor, she should not post false claims on a public board that ride the political wave based on unverified facts."