It was revealed that Kim Jin-wook, head of the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation chief, interviewed the main suspect, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Lee Seong-yoon, just before re-transferring to the prosecution in the recent’Illegal departure of former Justice Minister Kim Hak-eui. Since the head of the investigative agency, the head of the air defense agency, has accepted the request for an interview by the suspect who opposes the re-transmission of the case, criticism has been raised as “an improper meeting and undermining the independence of the air defense agency.”
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Moreover, Prosecutor Lee is a junior of President Moon Jae-in’s Kyung Hee University and a prominent candidate for the next prosecutor-general. In addition, there are suspicions that it was due to consultations with the prosecutor that Kim transferred the case to the prosecutor’s office and conditionally re-transferred after the investigation, saying, “Send back again after the investigation.”
At the general meeting of the National Assembly’s Legislative Judicial Committee on the afternoon of the 16th, Kim Jin-wook said, “I have met with Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon just before the re-information (12th) of the related case.” It is said that the interview took place on the 6th to 7th, when Kim was reviewing whether to relocate to the prosecution.
On the 16th, Kim Jin-wook, head of the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation, attended the general meeting of the National Assembly Legislative and Judicial Committee. News 1
“Attorney Seong-yoon Lee requested and met several times.”
Chief Kim said, “In the empty office on the 3rd floor of the Ministry of Airborne Building, the Chief of Public Affairs (the person), Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Public Transport, Yeo Un-guk, and an investigator interviewed Mr. Lee and his attorney. “Because the lawyer previously requested interviews several times.” He said, “I notified the right to reject statements and investigated (parallel),” he said. “After the interview, I left an investigation report.It also added.
Prosecutor Lee’s side revealed in an interview with Deputy Director Kim that he repeatedly expressed the meaning that “this case should not be re-transferred to the prosecution because the airlift has exclusive jurisdiction.”
It means that the head of the air defense department met the suspect in an important case and admitted to accepting the complaint. Moreover, after relocating the case on the 12th, Chief Kim sent an official letter saying, “If the prosecutors finish the investigation, please send them back. The prosecution’s investigation team and the prosecution’s investigation team are having a power conflict with the intention that the airborne will decide whether to prosecute or not.
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Rep. Kim criticized “there is a problem”, saying, “In a politically sensitive case, the head of the Airborne Department met a key suspect with the Deputy Chief of the Airborne Department, and after a long time after the interview, he relocated to the prosecution.”
After receiving the case from the prosecutor’s office on the 3rd, Kim announced the re-immigration policy on the 12th after suffering for about 9 days. At that time, Deputy Director Kim also announced an unusually long statement of close to 1,200 characters. “Direct investigation is best, but we couldn’t ignore the realistic conditions where the investigative manpower was not ready,” he said. “We took into consideration that it should not cause unnecessary fairness controversy or cause an investigation gap.”
Rep. Kim pointed out, “We only interviewed because we judged that the request for an interview was substantial,” and drew a line saying, “I did not have an interview because I was the prosecutor. He added, “The interview with the prosecutor and the decision to re-transfer the case are irrelevant.”
Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon, the other party, said, “There is no matter to answer for the investigation of the airlift.”
Lee Seong-yoon, Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. yunhap news
檢 “Turn over the investigation report without content… I ordered seolleongtang, but it looks like just a pot of rice.”
Experts criticize “Director Kim made misleading behavior.” This is because the head of the investigative agency seems to have accepted the suspect’s private complaint.
Suwon district prosecutor who took over the case said, “From the airlift Mr. Lee’s letter of opinion I received documents such as an investigation report (interviewee, interviewee, interview time only) that was missing for the interview details.”He explained.
Professor Chang-Hyun Lee, Graduate School of Law at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, said,He said, “If it is the investigation of the suspect and leaving a record in order to find out the substance of an important case, it is understandable.” However, in the form of an investigation report, there are various misunderstandings.“He said. He said that an investigation report is usually prepared when an investigator makes an investigation and then reports it to the upper level.
Even if the format of the investigation report is tolerated, it must be included if Director Kim does not prepare a record. I left out the’reason for not writing a record’The point is also raised. This is an interpretation in accordance with Article 26 of’Regulations on mutual cooperation between prosecutors and judicial police officers and general investigation rules’.
Young-soo Jang, a professor at the Graduate School of Law at Korea University, said, “When Deputy Director Kim announced that he would re-transfer the case, he heard the reason that he did not have the investigative manpower. Before that, he met with Prosecutor Lee and started the investigation, such as writing an investigation report.” That’s right,” he criticized. Prof. Jang added, “We need to intensively reveal why the investigation was initiated and the direction to relocate was changed.”
An official at the prosecution said, “If you investigate the suspect, you have to leave a record, and you only report the investigation when you confirm that it is exceptionally trivial.”I said.
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On the other hand, on the same day, questions and answers also came and answered on the controversy that the prosecution strongly rebelled against the prosecution’s strong rebellion against the prosecution’s clues that the Ministry of Public Affairs relocated the case to the prosecutors’ office on that day, saying, “When deciding whether to prosecute a prosecution after an investigation, send it to the airlift.”
Chief Kim said, “The prosecution claims that’Once the airborne has transferred the case, it has no authority to engage in it’, because the type of case transfer is misunderstood as having only one transferee.” It is explained that conditions can also be attached to the case resignation. Chief Kim said “This spy is “conditional spouse with the exercise of public prosecution withheld”.I emphasized. He said, “If the controversy continues in the future, we will have no choice but to be judged by the judiciary or the Constitutional Court.”
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