Prosecutors form an investigation team dedicated to "Myeong Tae-kyun"...an integrated investigation into all allegations

Supreme Prosecutors Dispatch 4 More Prosecutors to Changwon District Prosecutors' Office in 'Myeong Tae-kyun Investigation'

Deputy Prosecutor Lee Ji-hyung leads the investigation...New job allocation

Expansion of related investigation...Targets for 'Polls for Nomination' also

The Central District Prosecutors' Office's Accused 'Manipulation of Public Opinion' is also expected to be integrated.

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The prosecution has set up a dedicated investigation team in connection with the case of Myung Tae-kyun's alleged involvement in the nomination.

The plan is to put in four additional prosecutors, including the deputy prosecutor and the chief prosecutor, and look into all the suspicions raised, including the alleged manipulation of public opinion polls.

Reporter Kim Chul-hee reports.

[Reporter]
The Supreme Prosecutors' Office will send four additional prosecutors, including one deputy prosecutor and one senior prosecutor, to the Changwon District Prosecutors' Office, which is investigating Myung Tae-kyun's alleged involvement in the nomination.

Last month, it was reinforced again a month after sending two prosecutors to the investigation team.

A total of 11 dedicated teams were set up, including two prosecutors dispatched last month to the existing investigation team and four prosecutors dispatched this time,

It is actually similar in size to the 'special investigation team'.

Lee Ji-hyung, the second prosecutor at the Busan District Prosecutors' Office, will lead the investigation into Myung Tae-kyun,
As soon as we receive the report on
, we plan to allocate new work from the investigation team.

As a dedicated team has been established, the investigation centered on the 'money transaction' between former lawmaker Kim Young-sun and Myung Tae-kyun
It is expected to expand to the general suspicion, with
promised to nominate candidates in exchange for public opinion polls.

[Shim Woo-jung / Prosecutor General (Last month's 21st): (The prosecution is investigating the intervention of the nomination?) We are investigating all the suspicions that are being raised now.]

Earlier, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office manipulated poll data to obtain favorable results for Myung's election as president of Yoon Suk Yeol,
President and his wife
received a complaint that they aided and abetted it and reviewed the legal principles, and the allegations are also expected to be examined in Changwon.

With the Supreme Prosecutors' Office strongly expressing its will to investigate by forming a dedicated team, attention is being paid to whether the truth of the allegations surrounding Myung can be identified.

[YTN's Kim Chulhee]