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[^1]\n\nThe Gwangju District Prosecutors Office indicted former Korea National Investigation Chief Park Sung-joo and three other officials on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of rights. [^2]\n\nProsecutors indicted Park Sung-ju, former head of the National Office of Investigation under the National Police Agency, on Wednesday for allegedly obstructing an investigation into a high-profile murder case in Gwangju. [^3]\n\nSuspect Jang Yoon-gi was initially charged with simple murder, but prosecutors later supplemented the investigation to charge him with rape-murder and sought the death penalty. [^4]\n\nPark allegedly gave orders to separate the cases despite repeated suggestions to the contrary from front-line police officers, apparently out of fear that combining the cases would expose the police's failure to stop the suspect from committing additional crimes. [^5]\n\nPark Sung-ju was charged with abuse of power for allegedly ordering separate investigations into a suspect's stalking and rape case and his subsequent murder case. [^6]\n\nPark's order prevented the Gwangju Gwangsan Police Station from properly examining the rape and murder charges against Jang, leading the police to refer him to the prosecution on a simple murder charge, which carries a far lighter sentence than the minimum life imprisonment handed down for rape-murder. 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