Lee Yong-gu, vice minister of the Ministry of Justice, is attending a vice minister’s meeting held at the Seoul Government Complex in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 21st. The prosecution, who is investigating the suspicion of Lee’s assault by a taxi driver, is known to have recently restored a 30-second video from a taxi driver A’s cell phone showing the scene where Lee grabs A’s neck. News 1
On the 26th, the Seoul Police Agency, which is in the process of investigating the facts of the police investigation into the assault of a taxi driver by Deputy Attorney General Lee Yong-gu, called the owner who restored the black box video containing the assault scene of Lee as a reference person and investigated for about an hour and a half. did. He is a person who was investigated for about 3 hours at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, which is investigating the assault case of Vice Minister Lee the day before.
“The police didn’t install the viewer, so I couldn’t have seen it”
Owner A said that during the investigation by the fact-finding team and the prosecution, the taxi driver came to his black box company and the details of the call with the police investigator at the time.
Mr. A met with a reporter from JoongAng Ilbo at his office on the 26th and said, “On November 7th, a taxi driver came to him complaining that’an unpleasant thing happened but the video was not visible.’ Mr. A, who checked the memory card, said, “Because the video can only be viewed by installing the program viewer on the PC, I installed the program and played the video to the driver. The article took 30 seconds of video with a mobile phone.” Explained. He said, “The reason why the video was not seen by the police was because when viewed on a PC, the program was not installed and only USB was inserted.”
The black box model used by taxi driver A. Reporter Garam Lee
“I told the police to check the taxi driver’s cell phone
At that time, the taxi driver was said to be watching the restored video and filming it with a mobile phone. Mr. A said, “It was two months ago, and there are so many people in the store that I can’t remember the video.” He said, “I did not save the video, but only played it, so I couldn’t find the video even when the prosecution investigated the PC.”
Mr. A said that on November 9 last year, two days after the taxi driver visited, two phone calls were received every hour from an investigator at the Seoul Seocho Police Station. Mr. A said, “At the first phone call, I asked,’Is it correct that the taxi driver checked the black box video?’ and answered,’It is correct to bring the memory chip and check the video.’ He said, “In the second call, the investigator asked Mr. A,’What happened when the article said there was no video, and he said,’Check the taxi driver’s cell phone.’
According to Mr. A’s claim, the police at the time did not conduct a separate investigation even after finding out that the video of the assault black box of Vice Minister Lee Yong-gu was stored on the taxi driver’s mobile phone. As to whether or not the vehicle in the video is running, Mr. A said, “I do not remember whether it was running or stopped.”
Reporter Choi Yeon-su and Pyeon Gwang-hyun [email protected]