SEOUL : The former manager of late Korean actress Jang Ja Yun who is alleged to have committed suicide due to a sexual exploitation scandal, said he will turn himself in for police questioning on Wednesday.
Yoo Jang-ho, who had made public documents left behind by the starlet naming several high-profile figures involved in the scandal, had been uncontactable since last week. He had also missed a police request to appear for questioning on Saturday.
Bundang police regard Yoo as a central figure in this case and announced on Tuesday that a warrant for arrest will be issued against Yoo if he doesn’t show up.
The handwritten notes by the “Boys Before Flowers" actress stated that she was pimped out by her management company and forced to entertain high-powered entertainment figures, and threatened with violence if she refused to perform sexual favours for them.
Police raided the management company of the late actress on Sunday and seized over 200 items including computers and contracts. The head of the management company, Kim Sung-hoon, who has fled to Japan, had used the building in Samseoung-dong as his office until October 2008.
Photos recovered from one of the computers showed Jang had accompanied Kim and an unidentified producer from a broadcast station on a golf trip to Thailand last May.
“We were able to prove the trip took place by checking the records at the immigration bureau at Incheon airport,” a police spokesman said.
The producer was summoned for police questioning on Monday but failed to show up as he was out of town. Kim has also been asked to return to South Korea to cooperate in the investigation.
Police said the documents left behind by Jang also stated she was mistreated after refusing to accompany another producer on a separate Thai golf trip.
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