Special Prosecutor Team at Election Commission to Have Prosecutors and Police Join Tomorrow... Official Launch on September 7
Two Prosecutors and Several Police Officers from the Joint Task Force Dispatched as Advance Team
Request to Transfer Investigation Records on August 28... Deputy Special Prosecutor Selection Accelerates
Starting August 27, some prosecutors and police officers will be dispatched to the special prosecutor’s team led by Lee Taehan at the National Election Commission, which is investigating issues such as the ballot shortage during the June 3 local elections. This marks the team's full-fledged preparations for launch.
On August 26, the special prosecutor’s office announced to the press, “The special investigation team is gradually being established,” as it provided this update.
First, two prosecutors and some police officers who had been assigned to the Joint Prosecution-Police Investigation Headquarters for Fact-Finding on Infringement of Citizens’ Suffrage will join the special prosecutor’s team as advance members on August 27.
The special prosecutor’s team also plans to participate—alongside the dispatched prosecutors, special investigators, and a police forensics unit—in the upcoming onsite inspection by the National Assembly’s Public Administration and Security Committee at the Olympic Park vote-counting center. Additionally, a formal request for cooperation regarding evidence preservation has been delivered to the National Assembly.
The team will take over existing investigation records from the joint headquarters as well. The team requested on August 28 that the headquarters transfer all case files, and it expects to secure all relevant documents by early next week, around the time the deputy special prosecutor will be appointed.
The plan is to finish dispatching prosecutors, police officers, and related officials by September 4. The official launch of the team will then take place on September 7, at which point the full investigation will begin.
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The selection of the deputy special prosecutor is also underway. The special prosecutor’s office has shortlisted 10 candidates, combining its own pool with the list recommended by the Korean Bar Association, and after vetting them for disqualification, intends to send the final list of nominees to the Presidential Office by the end of this week at the latest.
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