Kim Jin-wook, the first chief of the high-ranking officials’ criminal investigation, is giving a greeting to the Democratic Party representative Lee Nak-yeon at the National Assembly on January 26th. Reporter Yoon Chang-won-The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency decided to directly investigate the case of the accusation of Kim Jin-wook, head of the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Office (KPA), for allegations of stock investment.
The Seoul Jongno Police Department, which has been investigating the case, recently announced on the 21st that the case was handed over to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s anti-corruption public crime investigation unit. It follows the guidelines that report cases that have focused social attention to the local police agency according to the adjustment of the investigative powers of the prosecutors and allow the local offices to conduct investigations directly according to the case.
Initially, the speculative capital monitoring center accused Chief Kim of violating the solicitation prohibition law on the 18th of last month, but was transferred to the police according to the revised Prosecutors’ Office Act. The Seoul Jongno Police Station, which was in charge of the investigation, summoned an official of the Speculative Capital Surveillance Center as the accuser on the 17th to investigate.
At the time, the group claimed in the complaint that “During his tenure at the Constitutional Court in 2017, Mr. Kim obtained unfair profits in the process of acquiring shares of Miko Biomed, a KOSDAQ-listed company, as a paid-in capital increase.
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