Senior Superintendent Baek Hae-ryong, who has raised suspicions of "external pressure in drug investigations," announced that he filed a public interest report with the Anti-corruption & Civil Rights Commission and applied for protection as a whistleblower.
On the 14th, Baek stated via his social media, "On the 12th, I submitted approximately 5,400 pages of investigation records and around 6,000 pages of documents—including official papers created during the investigation process—as evidence to the commission and completed the registration as a public interest whistleblower."
He added, "The decisive reason I endured countless attacks and persecution over the past 1,000 days was solely to gain the opportunity to investigate. I will no longer beg national institutions, pleading, ‘Give me the chance to investigate.’"
Baek further claimed that during his dispatch to the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office Customs Narcotics Joint Investigation Team, "I was excluded from even a single investigation meeting and did not receive a single page of the investigation materials handled by the team," asserting that communication surveillance and searches were not properly conducted.
He emphasized, "I will bring the records of truth out of the power’s secret chambers and disclose them all to the ‘court of the people and history.’ The disposition of these records will be entrusted to the people’s investigative body and the judges of history."
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