Police, prosecutors raid National Office of Investigation in parallel Gwangju murder probes

Police and prosecutors raided the police command body that oversees and directs criminal investigations nationwide Tuesday, following its alleged interference in the initial investigation into the killing of a teenage girl in Gwangju.

The Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office began searching the office of the chief of the National Office of Investigation’s violent crime division and other locations at around 6:15 a.m.

A special police investigation team launched its own search-and-seizure operati ...