The second comprehensive special counsel team, led by special counsel Kwon Chang-young, has disciplined a special investigator with a one-month pay cut for posting investigation-related materials on social media.
Assistant special counsel Kim Ji-mi said at a regular briefing on May 4 that the investigator was found to have posted materials filmed during the investigation along with personal reflections on SNS. She said the team decided on discipline after convening a rewards and discipline committee, conducting a fact-finding review and hearing the investigator’s statement.
The investigator was reported to have uploaded parts of a suspect’s interrogation record and a photo of an appointment letter, along with a post suggesting the investigation experience could help build professional expertise. The posts have since been deleted.
Kim said the special counsel team had already asked staff to refrain from using SNS as part of internal security management, and had previously notified personnel to avoid posting work-related content whenever possible. She said the team plans to use the incident to again stress the need to follow security rules.
The team, however, ruled out a separate plan to broadly inspect investigators’ personal SNS accounts. It said it is not considering measures such as checking individual accounts across the board.
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