Former Chief of Security Park Jong-jun’s 14-hour investigation ends… “We faithfully participated in the investigation”

Lee Jin-ha, head of the Security and Safety Headquarters, also concluded the investigation in 9 hours.

Former President Park Jong-joon, who blocked the execution of President Yoon Seok-yeol’s arrest warrant, returned home about 14 hours and 20 minutes after appearing for the second time for police investigation.

Former Director Park finished the second police investigation around 11:25 pm on the 11th and left the police National Investigation Headquarters building, briefly saying, “I participated faithfully in the investigation.”

Today’s investigation was the second summons conducted one day after the first summons on the 10th.

Following the first summons, there were predictions that there was a possibility of emergency arrest during the second summons, but the police sent former Director Park home for now.

Reporters asked questions about what part he explained, whether he was at the official residence during martial law, and whether there was an order to mobilize private soldiers, but former Director Park did not answer these questions.

The police are said to have investigated whether and whether soldiers on mandatory military service in the military security unit were mobilized to block investigators when they attempted to block the execution of the arrest warrant on the 3rd.

On the 3rd of this month, when the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Agency entered the presidential residence to execute an arrest warrant for President Yoon, former Director Park built a barrier with buses and cars and mobilized about 200 Secret Service employees to block the investigation team from entering. I have conducted it.

Accordingly, the police booked former Director Park on charges of special obstruction of official duties.

Former Director Park, who refused two requests to appear, voluntarily appeared at the police station on the 10th and underwent his first investigation.

He, who was in office at the time of his first appearance on the 10th, submitted a letter of resignation to Acting President Choi Sang-mok upon his attendance.

As this letter of resignation was accepted, former Director Park appeared at the Guksubbon as the current employee at the time of his first appearance, but came out as the former employee when he finished the 13-hour investigation.

Lee Jin-ha, head of the Security and Safety Headquarters of the Presidential Security Service, who was present on the same day, also returned home after completing the investigation for about 9 hours at around 11 p.m., slightly earlier than former Director Park.

Director Lee also met with reporters after completing the investigation and briefly said, “I worked sincerely,” but did not answer the reporters’ specific questions.

As former Director Park and Director Lee cooperate with the police investigation, the investigation into obstruction of arrest warrants is expected to speed up.

The police also sent a third attendance request to Security Headquarters Chief Lee Gwang-woo, asking him to appear by 10 a.m. on the 13th.

However, Kim Seong-hoon, deputy director of the National Security Agency, did not respond to the police’s summons to appear by 10 a.m. on the 11th.

It is reported that the police are considering applying for an arrest warrant for Deputy Director Kim after failing to respond to the third request for attendance.