Court rejects arrest warrant request for Ulsan vice mayor over election-meddling allegations
Jan 1, 2020
A court rejected an arrest warrant request for an Ulsan vice mayor suspected of illegally intervening in the 2018 mayoral election in his city late Tuesday.At about seven minutes to midnight, the Seoul Central District Court said it turned down prosecution's request from last Friday to detain Song Byung-gi, Ulsan's vice mayor for economic affairs, on charges of conspiring with several presidential aides to influence the city's mayoral poll last year in violation of the Public Official Election A