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2008/02/03 11:14 KST
Prosecution charges nearly 100 with draft evasion

   SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- The prosecution has discovered that scores of people, including professional football players, may have purposely injured themselves and had surgery to avoid mandatory military service, prosecution officials said Sunday.

The prosecution indicted 92 suspected draft dodgers, including 15 who are either active or former players in the Korean professional football league, officials said, noting 50 of them play in the minor K-2 or K-3 leagues. The rest are either university football players or ordinary citizens.