Police investigation headquarters raided over alleged mishandling of Gwangju murder case

Prosecutors and police separately raided the national police investigation headquarters Tuesday as part of their probes into allegations of police mishandling of a high-profile murder case in the southwestern city of Gwangju, officials said.

The investigators were seeking to seize evidence related to the murder investigation, which has faced growing controversy over allegations that police in Gwangju leaked investigative material to the suspect's father, who is also a police officer in the city.

Officials from the Gwangju District Prosecutors Office executed a search-and-seizure warrant at the National Police Agency's National Office of Investigation before a special police team tasked with investigating the allegations carried out its warrant.

Prosecutors sought to secure evidence to confirm allegations that police leaked investigative material and destroyed evidence related to the murder case.

The special police team, on the other hand, sought to seize records to check whether the police investigation headquarters intervened in the case.

The suspect in the murder case, 23-year-old Jang ...