“Tax Probe Is Only for the Suppression of the Press Rather Than Tax Justice”

Nam Kyung-Pil, the spokesperson of the Grand National Party, released a statement that "it`s been a year since the government began tax investigation in the press companies. The President must apologize for the press suppression to continue to hold the power."

He also mentioned that "the tax probe mobilized over a thousand tax investigators for 142 days was like a storm, imposing about 505.6 billion won of additional collection. But it has been turned out that the tax investigation was carried out by such corrupted officials as Ahn Jung-Nam, former Director General of the National Tax Service, and former Prosecutor General Shin Seung-Nam. The tax probe done by the dirty hands has lost its validity already."

He also added that "as revealed by the book written by a press reporter to Cheong Wa Dae, the press investigation was a press suppression carried out by all government institutions under the order of the President."

In-Soo Song issong@donga.com