(VOVworld) - A South Korean special prosecutor's team on Monday raided the home of a former presidential chief of staff to find evidence of his suspected illegal involvement in the culture ministry's personnel management scandal.

Investigators search the home of former presidential chief of staff Kim Ki-choon on December 26 (Photo: Yonhap/ VNA)

The raid was part of the investigation into the scandal that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye earlier this month. Local media reports showed the independent counsel team's investigators storming the home of Kim Ki-choon, who served as chief secretary to President Park between August 2013 and February 2015, to secure computer hard disks, diaries and mobile phones.