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
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 investigation agency, the head of the air defense agency, has accepted the request for an interview of the suspect who opposes the retransmission of the case, criticism has been raised as “an improper meeting and undermining the independence of the air defense agency.”
On the 16th, the judiciary committee admitted, “I met Lee Seong-yoon and heard’do not relocate’”
Afterwards, Kim Hak’s case, late transferee “Conditional transferee with reserved right of prosecution”
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 the fact 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.
“Attorney Seong-yoon Lee requested and met several times.”
“In the empty office on the 3rd floor of the Ministry of Public Service building, the Chief of Public Affairs (the person), Deputy Director Yeo Un-guk, and an investigator interviewed Mr. Lee and his attorney,” said Kim. “Because the lawyer requested interviews several times earlier.” He added, “I notified the right to reject statements and conducted an investigation (in parallel),” he added. “After the interview, I left an investigation report.”
During an interview with Chief Prosecutor Kim, the prosecutor’s office said, “This case should not be re-transferred to the prosecution because the airlift has exclusive jurisdiction,” Kim introduced.
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 resigning the case on the 12th, Chief Kim Jin-wook sent an official letter saying, “Please send me back after the prosecution has completed the investigation,” and said that “the air defense department will decide whether to prosecute”. It is a situation that creates
Lee Seong-yoon “Don’t relocate” → Kim Jin-wook “Conditional transference without the right to prosecute”
Rep. Kim Do-eup criticized “there is a problem,” saying, “In a politically sensitive case, the head of the airlifter met a key suspect with the deputy chief of the airlifter, 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.”
Rep. Kim insisted, “We need to clarify what kind of conversations went in and out in the interview.” 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.
Lee Chang-hyun, a professor at the Graduate School of Law at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, said, “It is understandable if the head of the public prosecutor has investigated the suspect in order to determine the substance of the important case and left a record.” He said that an investigation report is usually prepared when an investigator makes an investigation and then reports it to the upper level.
Young-soo Jang, a professor at the Graduate School of Law at Korea University, said, “At the time he announced that he would re-transfer the case, he heard the reason that he had no investigative personnel. I said, “It doesn’t make sense.” Prof. Jang added, “We need to intensively reveal why the investigation was initiated and the direction to relocate was changed.”
Suwon District Prosecutor, who took over the case, explained that “I received a document from the air prosecutor’s office in which the attorney’s opinion and the investigation report (only interviewee, interviewee, and interview hours were omitted) were compiled.” 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.”
Jin-wook Kim “should be judged by the court” in the controversy of “redirection of investigation only”
On the other hand, on that day, the Ministry of Public Affairs and Justice relocated the case to the prosecutors’ office, adding a clue to the prosecution, 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. Deputy Commissioner Kim defined this spouse as a’conditional spouse who withheld the exercise of public prosecution’. He emphasized that “It is the discretion of the Minister of Airlift to decide whether to do a simple or conditional transfer.” If the controversy continues in the future, Kim said that there is no choice but to be judged by the judiciary or the Constitutional Court.
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