Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Jeju Police Officer Involved in Faking Closure of Missing Persons Case

A current police officer in Jeju accused of falsely closing missing persons cases has been arrested.

The Jeju District Court issued an arrest warrant for Police Officer A today (August 25) after conducting a pre-arrest interrogation (substantive warrant review) on charges including dereliction of duty, forgery and uttering of official electronic records, and obstruction of official duties by deceit.

The warrant was issued due to concerns over the destruction of evidence and flight.

Police Officer A had previously been emergency-arrested, filed for a review of the legality of the arrest, and was released yesterday (August 24) following the court's decision to accept the request, but was re-arrested just a day later.

Police Officer A is accused of lying to a reporter in May by claiming that he had made contact with Jang Mi-ran (37), who had been reported missing, before arbitrarily closing the case and deleting Jang's data from the missing persons profiling system management list.

He is also suspected of using a similar method to falsely close the missing persons case of a man in his 60s, surnamed B, which was filed on July 2.

Following the discovery of the body of Mr. B at an undisclosed location in Jeju on August 22, the police recovered a body presumed to be Jang in Hallim-eup, Jeju City, yesterday morning (August 24).

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