■ Police,’LH seizure and search’
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, 12 LH persons refusing to use information
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On the 9th, the police initiated a forced investigation to seize and search the headquarters of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH). It has been a week since LH employees’ suspicion of speculation in the new city was revealed. With doubts about the police’s ability to investigate, they confiscated and searched the LH headquarters on this day and went to the test bench in earnest.
The National Investigation Headquarters of the National Police Agency, which oversees the LH investigation, planned to proceed with the investigation when an investigation request came in as a result of the total investigation by the government joint investigation team. However, after President Moon Jae-in ordered the investigation to be conducted quickly, regardless of the investigation the day before, the day before, he began a search for seizure.
A police official explained, “After requesting a warrant to the prosecution, the court issued a warrant late at night and conducted a seizure and search that day.” At a time when doubts about’the police’s ability to investigate real estate and quick response’ among the politicians and some citizens continue to arise, they have shown’investigation will’ anyway.
However, it is pointed out that the initial response, such as the timing of the seizure and search, was delayed. An attorney from a senior prosecutor’s office pointed out that “a week after the suspicion was revealed, it was enough time to destroy the evidence,” and “we should have conducted a seizure search much earlier.” The previous day, a person who revealed that he was an investigator at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in blind, an anonymous application for office workers, criticized, “If it were the prosecution, he would have confiscated and searched the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and LH by today (8th).
It is still unknown whether the police investigation will proceed smoothly in the future. A joint government investigation team conducted a thorough investigation into the alleged speculation of land in the third new city, and it was found that 12 government officials and LH executives and staff members of the Ministry of Land, which were the subject of the first investigation, refused to use personal information necessary for the investigation. The police sometimes collect and investigate information on their own, but if the investigation team’s data is inadequate, the police investigation will be hampered.
It is pointed out that in order to dispel these concerns, the police must bet on the fore and show their investigation power. The government upgraded the’Real Estate Speculation Special Investigation Team’ installed in the National Police Agency’s Noodle Headquarters to the’Government Joint Special Investigation Headquarters’, empowering police-centered investigations to take place. Employees of the National Tax Service and the Financial Services Commission are also dispatched to the Special Investigation Headquarters. Dongguk University’s police administration professor Lee Yun-ho said, “The public is concerned about the fact that the police are’pro-government’. You have to show your will.”
/ Reporter Han Dong-hoon [email protected], Reporter Shim Ki-moon [email protected], Reporter Kim Tae-young [email protected]
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