秋 “Kim Hak’s Controversy” belatedly appeared “Hwang Gyo-an also withdraws directly

When the prosecution launched a full-scale investigation into the alleged illegal emergency ban (withdrawal) of Kim Hak-ei against the former Vice Minister of Justice in March 2019, Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae said this was a’typical theater-type investigation.‘And criticized it. At the same time, Minister Chu argued that “even when Minister Hwang Gyo-an, there was an ex officio ban on leaving the country.” The illegal withdrawal itself took place during the days of former Justice Minister Park Sang-sang, but it was belated when the so-called ‘Chu Line’ intervention rumors such as Lee Yong-gu, vice minister of Justice, were raised.

Minister Chu argued on his Facebook page on the 16th that the controversy that emergency withdrawal to former Vice Minister Kim was illegal has spread to the prosecution’s investigation, and that it is “a behavior against the reforms the public wants.” It is a logic that “disappears the activities of the prosecution’s past son-in-law and even a legitimate re-investigation accordingly”.

At the same time, Minister Chu cited the case as Minister of Justice Hwang Gyo-an in 2013 during the Park Geun-hye administration. It is based on the logic that there was a (general) ban on leaving the country even at the time, ex officio by the Minister of Justice. Minister Chu said, “(At the time, the ban on departure) was simply a withdrawal for a reference person in the absence of a case number.” Raised his voice.

It is an extension of the clarification that the Ministry of Justice issued on the same day based on Article 4, Paragraph 2 of the Immigration Control Act, emphasized that’persons deemed inappropriate to leave the country’ can be banned from leaving the country without a request from an investigative agency. .

It is interpreted as an intention to criticize the reassignment of Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol to the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office as the third criminal division of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office (Director Jeong-seop Lee) for a fair investigation of the case on the 13th for a fair investigation of the case on the 13th. do.

In addition, former Vice Minister Kim was banned from leaving the country. Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won made an emergency withdrawal with false official documents.‘Is the gist of the suspicion, but some criticize that it was to find a case where Hwang Gyo-an was banned from leaving Japan when he was the Minister of Justice. In addition, at the time, the Minister Park Sang-sang did not order or attempt to prohibit departure from the country..

One front-line prosecutor criticized “the origin of the controversy as a suspicion of manipulating official documents, so why did we bring up the case of the Minister of Justice that has not been discussed so far?”

On the same day, Congressman Yoo Sang-beom, former prosecutor, criticized on Facebook as “procedural legality is an essential part of the realization of the rule of law.”

“Just because the minister is the person in charge of ordering the ban on departure, it is not possible to ban an emergency departure without the request of the head of the investigating agency,” he said. “The clarification of the Ministry of Justice is a general ban on departure.”

Above all, he pointed out that “the subject of urgent departure is a crime suspect.” The central prosecution case that this prosecutor entered in the request for an emergency departure prohibition was concluded without charges, and the case for the internal inspection of the eastern district prosecutors recorded in the request for approval was a false case number.

“This prosecutor did not have the authority to investigate directly under the status of a dispatched prosecutor, and he had no more authority to request an emergency withdrawal for the case of the central district prosecutor’s office other than the agency he belonged to.”

At the same time, Minister Chu also refuted that the prosecutors mentioned for the emergency withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim were also pointed out as’Chu Line’.

He said, “How can the officials of the Ministry of Justice who worked at the time of Kim’s departure from the country could be my person who had no one-sided knowledge?” I guess,” he pointed out.

Former Minister Park Sang-geun, Lee Jong-geun, who was then a policy adviser to the former Minister of Justice, and Lee Jong-geun, the current chief of the criminal justice department of the Ministry of Justice, and Lee Yong-gu, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, who was in charge of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Ministry of Justice at the time. They are Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Officer Lee Seong-yoon, who was the chief prosecutor of anti-corruption and strong prosecutors, Kim Tae-hoon, the chief prosecutor of the Justice Department, and Cha Gyu-geun, the head of the Immigration Department of the Justice Department. All of them are those who have been moderated in the current regime or have been promoted to important positions and have been classified as’pro-government personnel’.

At the same time, Minister Chu concluded with a statement saying, “I hope that the prosecutors who promised’the people’s prosecution’ will not disappoint the people anymore by wrapping my family at the beginning of the new year.”

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