Does the South Korean "Shiyue" tragedy involve evidence fraud? Special inspection team raided
BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) According to South Korea’s "East Asia Daily" report, the investigation on the shipwreck of the South Korean "Shiyue" passenger ship is still in progress. 14th, responsible for investigating "‘ The special inspection team of Shiyue, who was puzzled by the falsification of evidence at the time of the tragedy, seized and searched the server of the comprehensive digital evidence management system of the Grand Prosecutor’s Office, which kept CCTV image data on the day of the tragedy.
According to reports, on the same day, Li Xianzhu’s special inspection team dispatched investigators to the Grand Prosecutor’s Office in Seocho District, Seoul, and mastered the investigation teams related to the "Shiyue" incident such as Gwangju District Prosecutor’s Office and Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office in 2014. Closed-circuit television images and investigation records collected inside and outside the ship at that time.
The special inspection team published a report on the same day, saying: "More than 800 records and 40TB electronic intelligence materials have been obtained from the Special Investigation Committee on Social Tragedy (referred to as the Social Tragedy Committee), and more than 30 boxes of documents and 100TB video have been ensured through the seizure and search of the navy and the marine police, which are being analyzed."
According to the report, the special inspection team also investigated the suspicion that the CCTV image data was forged on the day of the sinking of the Shiyue and the video recording device (DVR) that stored the data was replaced before being submitted to the prosecution.
The special inspection team has entrusted the National Institute of Scientific Investigation to identify four materials, such as the original DVR hard disk, recovery data, video containing DVR recovery scenes, and video inside the hull of Shiyue. According to the special inspection, 11 people, including the relevant persons of the Social Welfare Committee, have been summoned as witnesses for investigation.
The report pointed out that the special inspection team must end the investigation before July 11, and then decide whether to prosecute. If necessary, the special inspection can be approved by the President to extend the investigation period by 30 days.
According to previous reports, on April 16, 2014, the "Shiyue" passenger ship carrying 476 people accidentally entered the water and sank in the waters north of Pingfeng Island, Jindo County, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, and the 300-year-old was killed or missing. After the tragedy, the South Korean government promised to rectify and set April 16th as "National Security Day" every year.
At the same time, since the "crony intervention" incident broke out, there have been allegations that former South Korean President park geun-hye left his post without directing rescue within seven hours after the shipwreck, and the former chief secretary of Cheongwadae’s civil affairs intervened in the prosecution’s investigation of the "Shiyue" shipwreck and obstructed the search, which cast more shadows on this tragedy. Poor response after the accident was also written in the impeachment bill against park geun-hye.