Police Claimed He Was Safe, But He Was Missing for 51 Days... Body Found After Re-reporting

It has been revealed that a male missing person, Mr. B, whose body was found in Jeju on the 22nd, was also falsely closed as a resolved case by the responsible police officer, much like the case of Mr. Jang (37), while actually remaining missing for over 50 days.

According to the Jeju Provincial Police Agency on the 23rd, police discovered the body of Mr. B at a location in Jeju during a missing person search the previous day.

While declining to disclose detailed circumstances or the timing of Mr. B's death at the request of the bereaved family, the police urgently arrested Police Inspector A after discovering that Inspector A, who had falsely closed Mr. Jang's case, had also falsely closed the missing person report for Mr. B.

Previously, Mr. B's family filed a missing person report with the police on July 2nd, but Inspector A closed the case, claiming that "Mr. B is safe."

It was also found that he had lifted the missing person status for Mr. B on the missing person profiling system.

However, after recently seeing media reports regarding Mr. Jang's prolonged disappearance, Mr. B's family re-filed a report with the police, stating that Mr. B was still missing.

During the process of accepting the re-reported case, the police identified that the officer in charge at the time was Inspector A and confirmed the false closure on the 21st.

The police subsequently conducted a search for the missing person Mr. B, but found him dead at a location in Jeju on the 22nd, 51 days after he went missing.

The police have urgently arrested Inspector A and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the false closure.

Inspector A reportedly deceived the family who filed the report on July 2nd, when the missing person report was filed, by stating that "Mr. B is safe" and telling them that "it is difficult to reveal his whereabouts as Mr. B does not wish for it."

The police are investigating suspicions that, in addition to Mr. B's case, Inspector A also falsely closed the long-term missing case of Mr. Jang and deleted related data by entering terms such as "unidentified body," implying Mr. Jang's death, into the missing person profiling system.

Additionally, police are conducting a massive search around Hallim Port to find the whereabouts of Mr. Jang, who has been missing for over three months since the initial missing person report was filed in May.

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