The Democratic Party (DP) filed an impeachment motion against the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) chief and two prosecutors for the second time on Tuesday.
The CIO has sparked controversy around its political bias and completed very few successful investigations.
That’s a sheer waste of taxes. President Yoon must listen to criticism for only trying to tame public servants without taking care of his own relatives.
The government anti-corruption watchdog could launch a probe into first lady Kim Keon-hee following a formal complaint by a civic group and growing calls from the Democratic Party (DP) for an investigation into various allegations.
The high-profile investigation aimed at then-presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol that weighed over the presidential race for eight months has been wrapped up without any major findings.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO)'s eight-month probe went up in smoke except for an indictment of prosecutor Sohn Joon-seong on charges of violating the Election Act.
Kim Jin-wook — the founding chief of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) created under the Moon Jae-in administration — maintained that he would not offer to resign.
Despite its lack of jurisdiction, the state anti-corruption agency ran telecommunication surveillance operations against media journalists, records from the Supreme Court showed.
Allegations about improper surveillance by the state anti-corruption investigation office have escalated to suspicions of a targeted inspection, after it was found that the watchdog looked at telephone records of fan club members of Yoon Suk-yeol.
Suspicions about improper surveillance of people by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) is deepening. Though its investigations are supposed to be strictly limited to senior government officials,...
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