'Police Officer Fall Death' 11 Additional Suspects from Yongsan Drug Meeting Referred

Eleven additional attendees of a group drug gathering held last year in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, where an active-duty police officer died from a fall, have been referred to the prosecution.

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The Yongsan Police Station in Seoul announced on the 8th that 11 people, including a man in his 30s identified as A, were sent to the prosecution without detention on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act.

According to the police, they are suspected of using narcotics at a drug gathering held on August 27 last year at a mixed-use apartment complex in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

When a report was received that an active-duty police officer attending the gathering had fallen, the police booked 25 attendees on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act and conducted an investigation, sending six organizers among them to the prosecution.

Subsequently, through further investigation, the police referred 11 additional individuals who tested positive for new types of narcotics to the prosecution. The remaining eight attendees, who tested negative for narcotic substances, were decided to be not prosecuted due to lack of evidence.

Previously, the organizers and attendees who were prosecuted appealed the first trial's verdict on February 1, after receiving prison sentences, citing unfair sentencing.