KOR
▲ Police Officer A, suspected of falsely closing a missing person case, leaves the detention center at the Jeju Dongbu Police Station to attend a review of the legality of her arrest and boards a transport vehicle on the morning of the 24th.
Police Officer A of the Jeju Seobu Police Station, who falsely closed the missing person report for Jang Mi-ran, was found to have failed to properly respond to another missing person report involving a man in his 60s who reportedly had "a lot of debt after his business failed."
According to 112 emergency report data submitted by the office of Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Lee Sang-sik to the National Police Agency today (the 25th), the wife of a man identified as B reported at 6:02 PM on July 2nd that her husband had left home on June 28th and could not be reached.
She also stated, "(My husband) failed in his business and has a lot of debt. He told our child to 'eat well and live well.'"
This conveyed circumstances strong enough to suspect potential danger to his safety.
However, Officer A in charge of the case reportedly closed it by treating him as safe without directly verifying B's whereabouts or safety.
After coming across news reports that the missing person case of Jang Mi-ran had been falsely closed, B's family filed a new report with the police on the 21st.
The police discovered B dead in Gujwa-eup, Jeju City, the next day, the 22nd.
Officer A is also suspected of falsely closing the missing person report regarding Jang Mi-ran after receiving it last May, lying that she had "made contact with Jang, but Jang asked not to disclose her location."
The body presumed to be Jang was found in a palm tree plantation about 400 meters away from her lodging 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 Officer A.
(Photo: Yonhap News)
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