“”””I never called” Shin Won-sik and Lee Jong-seop made 13 phone calls before and after the transfer.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporters Kwon Hee-won and Lee Do-heun = It was revealed that the then Minister of National Defense Lee Jong-seop and the current Minister of National Defense Shin Won-sik communicated more than 10 times around the time when the results of the Marine Corps investigation team’s investigation into the death of Corporal Chae were recovered after being transferred.

Minister Shin was the secretary of the ruling party on the National Defense Committee of the National Assembly at the time, and this contradicts his statement at the National Assembly that they did not call each other.

According to call records submitted to the Central Military Court on the 3rd, Minister Shin called former Minister Lee a total of 13 times from August 1 to 8 last year.

During this period, former head of the Marine Corps investigation team Park Jeong-hoon transferred the investigation results to the Gyeongbuk Police Agency, contrary to instructions to withhold the transfer, and a tense situation ensued, with the Ministry of National Defense retrieving the records and indicting former head Park on charges of mutiny.

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