Prosecutors raid presidential archives on suspicion of 'statistics falsification' by Moon government - South Korea

In South Korea, prosecutors, who are investigating allegations that the former government of President Moon Jae-in falsified major national statistics such as housing prices, are raiding the presidential archives.
The Daejeon District Public Prosecutors Office dispatched prosecutors and investigators to the Presidential Archives in Sejong City on the 19th and 20th of this month to execute a search warrant. The prosecutor's record is the president's record.
It is reported that viewing is currently underway with the cooperation of the museum. According to the Presidential Records Act, there is a period during which viewing or making copies is not permitted, or a request for the submission of materials is not required.
If the chief justice of the competent high court issues a warrant for presidentially designated records for which a period of protection has been established, viewing, copying, and submission of materials will be permitted. As is usually the case, the House of Presidential Archives
The house search could take several days. This raid was conducted to confirm the involvement and extent of the involvement of individuals from the Blue House (former South Korea's presidential office) in the ``suspected falsification of statistics incident'' that the Board of Audit requested investigation.
It is said that it is for the purpose of Last month, the Board of Audit asked prosecutors to investigate the case, and prosecutors assigned the case to the Daejeon District Public Prosecutors Office. An audit that examined the actual state of production and utilization of major national statistics.
The House said, ``During the previous Moon government, the Blue House and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, etc. exercised undue influence over the statistical compilation process of the Korea Real Estate Institute on more than 94 occasions from June 2017 to November 2021, revised
"I tried to make it more accurate," he concluded. The Board of Audit has asked prosecutors to investigate 22 people on suspicion of violating the Statistics Act or abusing their authority, but former President Moon was not included in those requests.
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