Police question Chung Jin-suk for 18 hours over presidential office PC wipe

According to Financial News, the police summoned former Chief of Staff to the President Chung Jin-suk, who is accused of involvement in wiping computers at the Office of the President of South Korea immediately after Yoon Suk Yeol was dismissed, and questioned him overnight.
Chung left for home at around 4:30 a.m. on the 9th after roughly 18 hours of questioning. He had appeared as a suspect at about 10:10 a.m. the previous day at an interrogation room of the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) in Hongje-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, on charges including damaging public electronic records, violating the Presidential Records Management Act, and abuse of authority.
It was the first time that the special investigation headquarters handling the three special counsel referral cases at the Korean National Police Agency had summoned Chung. Investigators pressed him on the facts and circumstances of the alleged "PC wiping" and on possible attempts to destroy evidence.
Chung is suspected of ordering, together with former presidential secretary for general affairs Yoon Jae-soon, that about 1,000 computers at the presidential office be wiped while handing over operations to the new administration. The special investigation headquarters, which took over the case from the Special Counsel for Insurrection and is conducting the probe, summoned Yoon as a suspect for questioning on the 3rd.
The special counsel team had earlier obtained testimony that Yoon instructed staff at the presidential office to "throw the PCs into a steel mill blast furnace and dispose of them."
welcome@fnnews.com Jang Yu-ha Reporter