A special prosecution team on Monday requested a court warrant to arrest a former senior prosecutor on the charge of abuse of power in a sexual misconduct probe.
The special probe team filed for the writ against Ahn Tae-geun, who is accused of groping a junior colleague during a funeral dinner in October 2010. He is also suspected of using his influence to have her transferred to a position outside of Seoul five years later, after she raised the issue with the prosecution's internal inspection office.
But prosecutors are seeking to charge him with abuse of authority, since the statute of limitations has expired for the sexual misconduct allegations.
Former senior prosecutor Ahn Tae-geun appears at the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors` Office on Feb. 26, 2018 to be questioned over sex offense allegations. (Yonhap)
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