Prosecutors Summon Former Land Minister Kim Hyun-mi for Investigation into Moon Administration's 'Statistics Manipulation Allegations'

The prosecution is summoning former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kim Hyun-mi for investigation regarding allegations that the Moon Jae-in administration manipulated national statistics such as housing prices.

Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kim Hyun-mi is attending the full meeting of the National Assembly Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee held at the National Assembly on the 30th, responding to questions from lawmakers. Photo by Yoon Dong-ju doso7@

According to the Daejeon District Prosecutors' Office on the 16th, former Minister Kim was summoned in the morning as a suspect and is currently under investigation.

The investigation into the manipulation of national statistics centers on allegations that the Moon Jae-in administration's Blue House (Presidential Secretariat) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport forced the Korea Real Estate Board to falsify statistical figures at least 94 times from 2017 to 2021. The audit office requested the prosecution to investigate 22 former government officials, including former Deputy Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Yoon Sung-won, former Administrator of the Administrative City Construction Agency Lee Moon-gi, and four former policy chiefs of the previous administration (Jang Ha-sung, Kim Soo-hyun, Kim Sang-jo, and Lee Ho-seung).

Recently, the court dismissed arrest warrants for former Deputy Minister Yoon and former Administrator Lee, causing a setback in the investigation. However, the prosecution plans to continue the investigation into higher-ups while considering reapplying for arrest warrants against them.