The prosecution investigating allegations that the Moon Jae-in administration manipulated national statistics such as housing prices has summoned and questioned former Blue House Policy Chief Kim Sang-jo.
The Daejeon District Prosecutors' Office is currently investigating Kim, who is suspected of abuse of authority and obstruction of the exercise of rights, as well as violations of the Statistics Act, after summoning him as a suspect on the 19th.
The investigation into the manipulation of national statistics centers on allegations that the 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 began after the Board of Audit and Inspection referred 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), to the prosecution for investigation.
Recently, the prosecution has accelerated the investigation by summoning and questioning former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kim Hyun-mee and former Blue House Policy Chief Jang Ha-sung.
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