Authorities determined on the 29th that Moss Tan (Korean name Dan Hyun-myeong), a Liberty University professor in the U.S. who has promoted conspiracy theories alleging the Chinese Communist Party interfered in South Korea’s elections, ignored a police summons and visited an early voting site ahead of the June 3 local elections.
According to News1 on the 29th, police asked Professor Tan the day before to appear that afternoon for questioning, but his team filed a motion to disqualify the investigators and submitted a written notice explaining his absence. Tan arrived in the country on the 28th, one day before early voting began.
In a statement, Tan’s legal team said, “Although police were aware that counsel had been retained, officers approached Professor Tan directly in an aircraft jetway area where the lawyer could not enter and demanded questioning and his signature.” They argued that the investigation should be suspended immediately until the disqualification motion is resolved.
Tan, who served as the State Department’s ambassador for international criminal justice during the first Trump administration, has been under police investigation on allegations that he defamed President Lee Jae-myung by spreading false claims.
At a Washington, D.C., press conference last June, he claimed that President Lee was involved in a girl’s murder as a youth, was imprisoned in a juvenile detention center, and as a result did not attend middle or high school.
Refusing to cooperate with police questioning and filing the investigator-disqualification request, Tan visited the early voting site at the Anjung-eup Administrative Welfare Center in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province that morning, then went to the campaign office of Hwang Kyo-ahn, the Freedom and Innovation Party candidate in the Pyeongtaek by-election, to coordinate efforts.
Hwang’s campaign said, “A U.S. delegation of election-fraud monitors led by Ambassador Moss Tan visited the campaign office to share concerns about alleged organized fraud in key Korean and U.S. elections, to highlight problems with the early voting process and electronic vote-counting systems, and to discuss possible cooperation.”
Tan said, “I am honored to work with Hwang, who has campaigned for electoral justice.” Hwang, who has repeatedly raised election-fraud allegations, responded, “Through cooperation with the U.S. monitoring team, we will make the Pyeongtaek by-election a starting point for transparent elections and strengthen our monitoring of voting and counting.”
Tan, who entered the country with three companions to examine alleged election fraud, is scheduled to depart on June 4, the day after the main local election vote.
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