"Husband Who Failed in Business Told Me to 'Take Care of Yourself'"... Police 'Ignored' Missing Person Report

It has been revealed that Police Inspector A of the Jeju Seobu Police Station, who falsely closed the missing person case of Jang Mi-ran, failed to properly respond to another missing person report concerning a man in his 60s, who was reported missing with the remark that he "has a lot of debts after a business failure."

According to 112 emergency report data submitted by the office of Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Lee Sang-sik from the Korean National Police Agency today (the 25th), the wife of a man identified as B reported at 6:02 p.m. on July 2 of last month that her husband had left home on June 28 and could not be reached.

She also informed police that her husband had failed in business, accumulated heavy debts, and told their child to "eat well and take care of yourself."

This conveyed circumstances that raised suspicions of a potential threat to his safety.

However, investigations showed that Inspector A, who was in charge of the case, closed it by treating it as safe without directly verifying B's location or safety.

After coming across media reports that Jang Mi-ran's missing person case had been falsely closed, B's family reported the matter to the police again on the 21st.

The police discovered B dead in Gujwa-eup, Jeju City, the next day, the 22nd.

Inspector A is also suspected of falsely closing the missing person case involving Jang Mi-ran after receiving the report last May, lying that she had been contacted but requested that her location not be disclosed.

A body presumed to be Jang was found in a palm tree plantation about 400 meters away from her accommodation on the 24th, 104 days after she went missing.

The police are conducting a comprehensive investigation into 298 missing person reports handled and closed by Inspector A.

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