'Former Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun forwarded to prosecutors over alleged perjury at National Assembly hearing; Rogers not referred'

[Financial News] Park Dae-jun, former head of Coupang Korea, has been forwarded to prosecutors over allegations that he gave false testimony at last year’s National Assembly hearing on the “Coupang crisis.”
According to police on the 2nd, the Anti-Corruption Investigation Unit of the Metropolitan Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency forwarded Park and Cho Yong-woo, Vice President for Government and National Assembly Affairs at Coupang, to the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office the previous day without detention. They face charges including perjury under the Act on Testimony, Appraisal, etc. before the National Assembly.
Coupang auditor Yoon Hye-young, who faces the same charges, was forwarded first on the 31st of last month. However, police decided not to forward some of the charges against Yoon.
Park is accused of giving testimony contrary to the facts when he appeared as a witness at the National Assembly hearing on December 30 last year. The allegations concern, among other matters, the suspected concealment of an industrial accident involving the late Jang Deok-joon, a worker at a Coupang logistics center.
Following the hearing, the Science, ICT, Broadcasting, and Communications Committee of the National Assembly filed a complaint against Park and other former and current Coupang executives for allegedly violating the Act on Testimony, Appraisal, etc. before the National Assembly.
Police recently decided not to forward Harold Rogers, Coupang’s interim head in Korea, who was also named in the complaint, after finding no charges against him. Rogers had been accused of perjury over remarks at the hearing suggesting that the South Korean government had directed the process of contacting a suspect in a personal-information leak.
Meanwhile, Park was also questioned by police as a reference witness in connection with the so-called “lunch allegation” involving Independent lawmaker Kim Byung-gi and Coupang executives. Kim is suspected of asking Park to impose personnel disadvantages on former aides who had raised allegations against him after they moved to Coupang.

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