EXCLUSIVE: "Isn't This a Problem?"... Were 'Traces' on Jang Yoon-gi's Phone Covered Up?

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Moving on to the Jang Yoon-gi case. Yesterday, July 15, the National Police Agency's special investigation team announced that they had uncovered circumstances suggesting Jang Yoon-gi knew the victim, a high school girl, even before the incident. Testimony has emerged suggesting that the investigation team at the Gwangsan Police Station was aware of this at the time and reported their concerns to their superiors, asking, "Isn't this a problem?" but the matter was effectively ignored.

First, here is an exclusive report by reporter Son Gijun.

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"Circumstances have been discovered suggesting that Jang Yoon-gi knew the victim, a high school girl, from before the crime." This was revealed by the National Police Agency's special investigation team during a briefing on the interim investigation results yesterday.

The special investigation team explained that while these circumstances were found on a spare mobile phone belonging to Jang Yoon-gi and were identified during the initial investigation, no further verification was conducted.

If these circumstances are true, they serve as a crucial clue indicating the possibility that Jang Yoon-gi had been targeting the victim even before the crime.

It is reported that the special investigation team has secured testimony to the effect that members of the investigation team at the time had identified these circumstances and exchanged comments such as, "Isn't this a problem?"

They reportedly testified that they reported this to the then-investigation team leader, Inspector A, but received no particular response.

The indictment for this case states that after Jang Yoon-gi spotted the victim, he began following her in his vehicle. It notes that while the victim walked for 1.2 km, he drove in the same direction and stopped or got out of the car a total of four times to check her path.

The special investigation team is conducting further investigations to verify whether these circumstances are true.

In response, Inspector A's side refuted the claims, stating that they were unaware of the existence of such evidence on the mobile phone and were never asked about it even once during the special investigation team's questioning.

They also claimed that they had no knowledge of the matter until the police made the existence of these circumstances public.

(Video Editing: Shin Se-eun, Design: Park Tae-young)
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