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The younger brother of President Park Geun-hye appeared before prosecutors Monday to face questioning over a widening scandal involving a leaked presidential document.
The younger brother of President Park Geun-hye appeared before prosecutors Monday to face questioning over a widening scandal involving a leaked presidential document.
Dismissing the document dated Jan. 6 as groundless, Jeong last week filed a libel suit against the local daily Segye Times, which first reported the allegations.
Park Ji-man, head of EG corporation, showed up at Seoul District Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul at around 2:30 p.m. Monday.
The younger Park reportedly received more than 100 leaked presidential documents, and he will likely be grilled on how he obtained those documents and whether he asked Cheong Wa Dae or the state intelligence body to look into documents about him.
The prosecution office said it also plans to question Park Ji-man over why and when he met a reporter from the Segye Times.
Arriving at the prosecution office, Park vowed to speak the truth but refused to comment on whether he thought Jeong had indeed hired someone to follow him.
"I will talk about it inside (with the prosecutors)," he said before heading in.
The allegations over Jeong's behind-the-scenes intervention in state affairs have emerged as a nation-rocking political scandal, putting the Park administration in the hot seat as it enters its third year in power in February.
The summons of the younger Park is widely seen as indicating the prosecution probe into the allegations is nearing the home stretch.
The prosecution has so far summoned several key figures involved in the allegations for questioning.
On Wednesday, Jeong appeared before prosecutors to undergo grueling questioning over the allegations, which he has flatly denied.
Park Kwan-cheon, a senior police officer suspected of drawing up the document, was summoned twice for questioning.
Prosecutors have also questioned a former presidential secretary and Park's supervisor as well as an incumbent presidential secretary for general affairs, who Jeong had reportedly met regularly. (Yonhap)
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