Former Board of Audit and Inspection Chairman Choe Jae-hae responds to lawmakers’ questions throughout a Nationwide Meeting audit in Seoul, Oct. 16. Yonhap
The Corruption Investigation Workplace for Excessive-ranking Officers (CIO) raided the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI), a state audit establishment, on Thursday over a controversial audit performed throughout former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s administration.
CIO prosecutors and investigators searched a number of BAI workplaces associated to the allegations that former BAI chair Choe Jae-hae ordered a particular audit concentrating on Jeon Hyun-heui, then chair of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Fee (ACRC), in 2022 to stress her to resign.
Jeon, who was appointed to the ACRC by former liberal President Moon Jae-in, was reportedly beneath stress to depart the fee throughout Yoon’s conservative authorities. She is presently a lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Occasion of Korea(DPK).
The raid got here after the CIO questioned Choe on Oct. 18 as a suspect in reference to expenses of abuse of energy.
The CIO suspects that Choe instructed a focused audit towards Jeon to power her to resign and requested the ACRC to submit numerous paperwork beneath the pretext of a particular audit reasonably than a daily audit.
Certainly, the BAI carried out a particular audit on Jeon in July 2022 over allegations of her recurring tardiness and favoritism granted to a former justice minister.
The BAI then launched an audit report containing numerous allegations of Jeon’s inappropriate behaviors in June 2023, together with one which she had arrived at work after 9 a.m. on 83 of the 89 days she labored on the authorities advanced in Sejong.
Jeon filed a grievance towards Choe and one other rating BAI official with the CIO in December 2022, claiming the particular audit was performed on the idea of false info to stress her to resign.
