Overview
- Investigators searched the defense and foreign ministries along with the interior ministry and the Presidential Security Service, the team said.
- The latest raids came a day after agents seized materials at opposition Rep. Yoon Han-hong’s home and offices over the relocation and renovation.
- A search-and-seizure warrant for Rep. Yoon was reportedly issued on an abuse-of-power charge.
- The second special counsel, led by Kwon Chang-young and launched last month, is pursuing 17 allegations that earlier probes left unresolved.
- A prior special counsel indicted former Vice Land Minister Kim Oh-jin and a presidential secretary surnamed Hwang in December on related charges.