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Cheong Wa Dae bodyguard cannot confirm whereabouts during Roh’s final moments

Police have secured the radio communication report of the bodyguard saying“I cannot see him” and have opened up a reinvestgiation of Roh’s last morning

» “Owl Rock” offers a unique vantage point from which to look out over Bongwha Village, the hometown of the late former President Roh Moo-hyun, May 26.

It was confirmed that there was no bodyguard present when the former President Roh Moo-hyun committed suicide on May 23. Accordingly, police have launched a reinvestigation of what the former president was doing on the day of suicide.

“It may be that the bodyguard sent by the Cheong Wa Dae was not present when the former president threw himself from ‘Owl Rock,’” an official of the Cheong Wa Dae (the presidential office in South Korea or Blue House) said on Tuesday. “The bodyguard failed to find him and created a false story,” the official added.

A police official said, “The bodyguard has changed his account of his whereabouts several times, and we have summoned him again to the South Gyungsang Police Agency for further questioning.”

The police have secured the content of a radio communications report to the Cheong Wa Dae in which the bodyguard said, “I missed him. I cannot see him.” Another police official confirmed the content, but said, “We do not know when the radio communication took place. We will find that out through further investigation.”

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Posted on : May.27,2009 12:09 KST

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