Overview
- Seoul police on Tuesday forwarded documents to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office accusing former KFA president Jeong Mong-gyu and two ex-officials of falsifying materials to obstruct the board’s review of the national coach selection.
- Investigators said the alleged falsification was meant to make the Strengthening Committee’s work look legitimate when it recommended coaching candidates to the KFA board.
- Police concluded there was no evidence that former coach Hong Myung-bo directly took part in the selection and did not send him to prosecutors, and they found insufficient proof to pursue claims about excessive pay.
- Jeong has issued a public denial, and prosecutors must now decide whether to indict based on the police referral rather than a formal charge at this stage.
- The probe followed public anger after South Korea’s 2026 World Cup exit and could prompt wider scrutiny of how the KFA records committee decisions and manages oversight, with observers watching for committee testimony and internal documents.