Prosecutors Searches NOI, Others over Alleged Deployment to Arrest Lawmakers during Martial Law l KBS WORLD

Prosecutors probing the December 3 martial regulation raided workplaces of the Nationwide Workplace of Investigation(NOI) beneath the police, the Seoul Yeongdeungpo Police Station and the protection ministry relating to personnel despatched to arrest a gaggle of lawmakers beneath martial regulation.

The raid on Thursday comes amid allegations that the NOI dispatched murder detectives upon a request from the Protection Counterintelligence Command.

In line with the prosecution’s workforce, it has verified that the counterintelligence company made contact with an official from the NOI on the night time of the martial regulation, whereas questioning these concerned, together with the Yeongdeungpo police chief and a senior superintendent normal on the NOI.

Whereas it acknowledged that one in every of its officers had acquired such a request and offered a listing of ten detectives, the NOI didn’t confirm whether or not it had really despatched them to the Nationwide Meeting.

The protection ministry’s probe workforce, for its half, is alleged to have deployed ten investigators upon the same request from then-martial regulation command’s joint investigation headquarters.

The raid follows tensions between the prosecution and a cooperative workforce among the many NOI, the Corruption Investigation Workplace for Excessive-ranking Officers(CIO) and the protection ministry over taking the lead on the investigation into alleged treason throughout martial regulation.