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a court has issued an arrest warrant for the former auditor of the Korea Water Resources Corporation Kang Rae-gu, a key figure in the
alleged money envelope at the Democratic National Convention, saying there is a risk of destroying evidence. It's been 17 days since the first warrant was dismissed.

Reporter Kang Min-woo reports.

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Kang Rae-koo, a former auditor of the Korea Water Resources Corporation who was singled out as a financing scheme in the
alleged money envelope at the Democratic National Convention, was detained last night (8th).

It comes 17 days after the warrant was dismissed at the first substantive examination held last month.

Seoul Central District Law Chief Judge Yoo Chang-hoon issued the warrant, saying he was concerned about the destruction of evidence.

Kang's allegations, which prosecutors put in the warrant request, were the same as they were when they filed their first arrest warrant request last month.

Kang is accused of conspiring with MDP officials to elect former representative Song Yong-gil at last year's MDP convention, providing 9 million won to campaign officials and others to direct and solicit them, and a separate charge of bribery of 400 million won.

In the first substantive examination of the warrant, the court found that it was difficult to conclude that Mr. Kang personally attempted to destroy evidence, but the issuance of the warrant in the second examination can be interpreted as the admission of the circumstances of Mr. Kang's destruction of evidence, which the prosecution presented further through the supplementary investigation.

In seeking the warrant, prosecutors said they identified circumstances under which Kang went beyond mere swipes and engaged in "systematic destruction of evidence."

In particular, Song, who was identified as an accomplice in the case, submitted a reset mobile phone to the prosecutor's office, and the computer hard disk of the sponsoring organization, the Institute for Peace and Eating and Living Issues, was formatted or replaced before the seizure and search.

As prosecutors secure recruits for Kang, who is considered to be at the heart of the money bag allegations, it is expected that subpoena investigations into lawmakers Yun Kwan-seok and Lee Sung-man, who are suspected of involvement in the delivery of money and valuables, will soon continue.

(Video Interview: Kim Seung-tae, Video Editing: Kim Jun-hee)