Jo Ji-ho, "Judge Lee Jae-myung not guilty on the arrest list"...Police investigate presidential security chief

[Anchor]
It has been confirmed that police chief Cho Ji-ho, who is under arrest, stated that Judge Kim Dong-hyun, who acquitted representative Lee Jae-myung in the first trial, was on the arrest list at the time of the emergency martial law.

The police called Park Jong-joon, the head of the Presidential Security Service, as a reference to investigate the president of Yoon Suk Yeol, including the safe house meeting.

Reporter Lim Ye-jin reports.

[Reporter]
Following the declaration of the emergency martial law, Yeo In-hyeong, the head of the counterintelligence command, asked Hong Jang-won, the former first deputy chief of the NIS, and Jo Ji-ho, the police chief, to track the location of the arrest of key figures.

At the direction of former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, he requested to track the location of Chairman Woo Won-sik and Representative Lee Jae-myung.

Commander Yeo is said to have stated in the prosecution that they were the ones that President Yoon Suk Yeol usually spoke negatively of.

[Yeo In-hyeong / Commander of the Defense Security Command (YTN Interview): (Minister Kim Yong-hyun) cooperate with the police to check the location or whatever, look for it anyway, like this....]

There was an earlier claim that the arrest list also included Judge Kim Dong-hyun of the Seoul Central District Court, who acquitted Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, in the first trial of perjury teacher charges, and Commissioner Jo Ji-ho, who is under arrest, made a related statement in a recent police investigation.

I was asked by Commander Yeo In-hyeong to track the location of 15 people, and I also heard Judge Kim's name.

However, further investigation is expected to be needed to determine whether Commander Yeo made an independent judgment and gave relevant instructions to Director Cho or whether the superiors intervened.

Commissioner Jo Ji-ho and Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Commissioner Kim Bong-sik, who met with President Yoon at the safe house in Samcheong-dong and received A4 documents with the government agency, as well as the arrest list, were arrested and sent to the prosecution.

The police recently investigated Presidential Security Service Director Park Jong-joon for further investigation into President Yoon's movements, including an safe house meeting.

In response, the security service said that it is true that Minister Park contacted Cho and Kim on the evening of the 3rd, but he did not know anything about emergency martial law and did not attend the interview, so he did not know the contents.

I'm YTN's Lim Yejin.