Seoul Mayor Oh Sehoon said that the person claiming to be a public-interest whistleblower in connection with the Han River Bus kickback allegations was an employee who had worked in the Audit Office and left because of internal conflict. Oh criticized the allegations as “an excessive challenge made without any decisive clues.”
On October 19, during the Seoul Metropolitan Government audit by the National Assembly’s Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, Oh told Eom Taeyoung, a lawmaker from the People Power Party, “This case began when an employee who had worked in our Audit Office took these materials outside and made them public, just before the National Assembly Public Administration and Security Committee’s audit.”
Oh also challenged the employee’s claim to be a public-interest whistleblower. “When we looked into the circumstances internally, we found that it was related to the employee’s personnel issue,” he said, adding, “There was also an underlying conflict between employees during the transfer from the Audit Office to another department, though it is difficult to disclose the details.”
In response to the repeated allegations, Oh argued that they amounted to a “political offensive.” “It remains to be seen whether the criminal allegations will be proven, but would it be socially desirable to establish an order in which people...
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