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Gov. Kim heads home after overnight interrogation in opinion rigging probe: Yonhap

Park Sae-jin Reporter(swatchsjp@ajunews.com) | Posted : August 7, 2018, 10:50 | Updated : August 7, 2018, 10:50
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SEOUL -- South Gyeongsang Province Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo returned home early Tuesday after undergoing an 18-hour questioning by special prosecutors over his alleged involvement in a massive rigging of online political comments led by a power blogger.

Kim emerged from the special counsel's office at about 3:50 a.m., looking fatigued but wearing a smile.

"I explained myself sufficiently and in detail," he told reporters. "I cooperated with the investigation with confidence."

Asked whether the special prosecution showed him any "smoking gun," Kim said, "I don't believe there was any, or anything that proves to be one."

He was summoned for questioning on Friday over allegations he was involved in a massive manipulation of comments on Internet news articles to sway public opinion in favor of the ruling Democratic Party (DP).

The former DP lawmaker who just won his governorship in June local elections is suspected of either being actively engaged in the scheme or being regularly briefed about it by Kim Dong-won, better known by his nickname Druking, and his crew.

Special investigators suspect that Kim worked with them to artificially jack up the number of likes for Internet comments attached to news articles about the DP, then the opposition bloc, between 2016 and early 2017.

In November 2016, Kim was allegedly invited by the Druking team to see a demonstration of a computer program designed to rig comments, and he gave them tacit approval to carry out the alleged plan and let them brief him about it regularly.

Kim is also suspected of offering the position of consulate general in the Japanese city of Osaka to Druking while asking for help in this year's elections.

Kim has denied the allegations.

The scandal has become a hot-button issue because of the potential political repercussions it could have on the ruling liberal bloc. Kim is also known for his close ties with President Moon Jae-in.

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