South Korea plans to send an interagency probe team to Shanghai for an on-site investigation into a scandal involving South Korean diplomats and a leakage of confidential information to a Chinese woman.

The probe team will focus on questioning officials at the Shanghai consulate on how the contact information of some 200 South Korean government and ruling Grand National Party officials were leaked to the Chinese woman identified as Deng Xinmin. The probe will continue into next Saturday.

The team will also probe whether the South Koreans at the consulate engaged in illegal visa issuance practices and whether they received bribes. In addition, the team will look into whether any additional officials were involved.

However, the probe team has reportedly decided that it cannot question Deng, as it does not have jurisdiction in Shanghai. Deng’s current whereabouts are unknown.

After the on-site probe, the prime minister’s office will summon Kim Jeong-kee, the chief South Korean diplomat in Shanghai at the time, to question him on the channels that were used to leak the information and his ties to Deng.