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Skips questioning; visits Pyeongtaek polling place where Hwang is campaigning
\”I came to monitor election fraud,\” he says
‘Election-fraud theorist’ Moss Tan, a Liberty University professor in the United States, arrived in South Korea just before the June 3 local elections and visited an early voting site. He faces defamation charges over comments about President Lee Jae-myung and ignored a police summons while meeting with multiple candidates.
On May 30, police said the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s cyber investigation unit had asked Tan to appear for questioning the day before. Instead of complying, Tan submitted a motion seeking the investigator’s disqualification and provided a written excuse for his absence. He then went to an early voting site in Anjung-eup, Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, where he met Hwang Kyo-ahn, who is running in the district’s parliamentary by-election. Hwang has also raised allegations of election fraud.
Tan later met with Pastor Jeon Kwang-hoon, who was previously arrested and indicted over his alleged role behind the Seoul Western District Court riot. On his YouTube channel, Jeon said, \”I met Moss Tan and we spoke for nearly an hour. When I asked why he came to Korea, he said, ‘I came to monitor election fraud.’\”
Tan served as the State Department’s Ambassador-at-Large for International Criminal Justice during the first Trump administration. He has repeatedly alleged that China interfered in South Korea’s elections, a claim that has generated controversy. Upon arriving at Incheon International Airport on the 28th, he also claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump had referenced Korea’s election fraud issues.
At a press conference in Washington, D.C., last June, Tan said, \”President Lee was involved in a murder as a youth and was confined to a juvenile detention facility,\” a statement that prompted a legal complaint. Last month, police declined to prosecute, saying they lacked jurisdiction because the remark was made in the United States. Prosecutors, however, requested a reinvestigation, arguing that jurisdiction can also be based on where the harm to the crime’s victim occurred. The police have continued to pursue an investigation into Tan on defamation charges under the Information and Communications Network Act.
Authorities also applied defamation charges to similar comments Tan made about President Lee at Eunpyeong First Church during a July visit last year. In November, investigators judged those statements to be false, but they suspended the probe at the end of March after Tan’s stay in the United States made questioning difficult.
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