State auditor directly orders probe into allegations involving senior official, USKI
Social affairsApr 20, 2018
The chief of the state audit agency has directly ordered an investigation into allegations that a senior agency official used her status and that of her husband to demand that a US think tank accept her as a visiting scholar, an official said Friday.Choe Jae-hyeong, head of the Board of Audit and Inspection, issued the instruction after an opposition lawmaker raised the allegations Thursday and made public an email that the senior official, surnamed Jang, sent to the US-Korea Institute of Johns