South Korean police find governor’s wife made defamatory tweets

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South Korean police find governor’s wife made defamatory tweets

SEOUL, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- South Korean police have handed over a case, involving the wife of a South Korea's Gyeonggi Province governor and her alleged defamatory and false tweets, to the public prosecution on Monday.

The Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency forwarded the case to a public prosecutor's office after it concluded that the governor's wife is the owner of a Twitter account that repeatedly spread false information and defamatory remarks in some 40,000 tweets for the past seven months.

Kim Hye-gyeong, who police viewed to be the owner of the most talked-about Twitter account in South Korea "Haegyeonggung Ms. Kim," has been accused of spreading false information and defamation and slander against political rivals of her husband, Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung.

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