Investigators again raid Shincheonji headquarters over alleged political collusion
Published: 11 Mar. 2026, 18:37
![Members of a joint prosecution-police investigation team search the People Power Party’s central headquarters in Yeouido, western Seoul, on March 3. [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2026/03/11/ad0b71dd-c324-4195-97f2-5335785d399d.jpg)
Members of a joint prosecution-police investigation team search the People Power Party’s central headquarters in Yeouido, western Seoul, on March 3. [YONHAP]
A joint prosecution-police team investigating suspected collusion between politics and religion again raided the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a nonmainstream religious sect, on Wednesday as part of a probe into its alleged ties to the main opposition People Power Party (PPP).
Prosecutors and investigators from the team searched Shincheonji's headquarters in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi, in the morning to seize additional data related to suspicions of church members joining the PPP en masse years ago.
They already searched the Gwacheon headquarters and the residence of the church's founder, Lee Man-hee, in January.
Lee and others are suspected of forcing church followers to join the PPP with the aim of influencing the results of the party's presidential primary in 2021 and the party's candidate nominations for the general elections in 2024.
Yonhap
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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