[단독]Immigration Officer, Prosecutor “If you investigate this, the prosecution will be hurt.”

A secretary from the Immigration Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice was investigated during an investigation by Kim Hak-eui’s former Vice Minister of Justice on March 23, 2019. “If you investigate this, the prosecution will also be hurt”It appeared on the 21st. The contents were contained in the second public interest report filed on the 20th by the public interest reporter, who reported the allegations of illegal withdrawal by former Vice Minister Kim Hak-ei to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea on the 20th.

According to the 14-page second report obtained by the JoongAng Ilbo, the investigation team of the 3rd Department of Criminal Prosecutors at Anyang District of Suwon District, at the request of an investigation by the Ministry of Justice in April 2019, charged 3 officials at the Immigration Headquarters and 2 public interest judges for information leakage related to the departure of Kim Investigated. On June 25 of the same year, the prosecutor of the investigation team called Clerk A in the process of investigating Mr. B, an immigration officer.

At the request of Prosecutor Gyu-won Lee, who was dispatched to the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office’s Past Photographic Investigation Group, on the day of urgent withdrawal of Deputy Minister Kim, he asked how he uploaded a file titled ‘190323 khe being written.hwp’ to the Kakao Talk group chat room with the staff. It was for it. The document contained a series of processes related to the emergency withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim.

This document, written under the title of “Report on the Emergency Departure Prohibition of Former Vice Minister Kim Hak,” contains the circumstances in which Prosecutor Gyu-won Lee, dispatched to the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office on March 23, inquired real-time departure information of former vice minister Kim before requesting an emergency withdrawal. have. At around 10:52 p.m. on March 22, the Incheon International Airport Information Analysis Division was monitoring the immigration examiner, and recognized that former Vice Minister Kim had entered the departure hall, and informed the main checkup fact-finding team through the immigration headquarters. It was 0:08 on the 23rd that the prosecutor received the emergency withdrawal request from former Vice Minister Kim at Incheon International Airport through the computer network.

The investigation team prosecutor, who secured a statement that Clerk A had written the document, asked about the situation at the time in a phone call with Clerk A. Then Clerk A “What was wrong with the immigration officials in the process of banning departure? The prosecution was asked to do it, but if this is investigated, the prosecution is also injured. Do you know it? You ask for monitoring (departure inquiry), are you seeing this as a civilian inspection?”Replied with the intention of rejecting the statement regarding the content of the document. The information was contained in the report of the’Department of Immigration Officer A’s call history’ submitted by the investigation team to the Anti-Corruption Forces Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office on July 1 of that year.

In this regard, the public interest reporter said, “This is a key document describing the process of approving improper emergency withdrawal, and it was necessary to investigate the author, Clerk A.” He protested the investigation by the investigative prosecutor and requested that Mr. B and the secretary A report the details and details of the investigation.” “The reason for the investigation by the immigration officials and the reason for the investigation by the secretary A was reported through various channels, so that they intervened in the investigation of the Anyang branch office, and contacted with the intention to stop further investigations. After that, the investigation team had to stop further summoning investigations after reporting to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office that it had completed the investigation of the person concerned, and had to abandon the investigation plans toward the’upper line’, such as the head of the immigration headquarters and the head of the immigration section.

In the public interest report, the investigation team of the Anyang branch found a suspicion of prosecutor Lee Gyu-won who requested an emergency withdrawal from former Vice Minister Kim. There is also content that I was trying to do it. It was also included that it was decided not to proceed any further during the internal review stage after being contacted by the Great Sword Anti-corruption.

The charges against this prosecution include an emergency withdrawal request, approval request, and KakaoTalk group chat room that the investigation team found in the process of analyzing a total of 455 pages of inspection records and forensic data for a total of six mobile phones that were transferred from the Ministry of Justice’s office. It was according to the content of the conversation.

In the report titled “Report on charges of misconduct by the investigation team dispatched by the investigation team on June 18 of that year”, the allegations of the prosecutor in connection with the recent allegations of illegal withdrawal of former vice minister Kim are detailed.

According to this data, the prosecutor in the process of preparing and sending an emergency withdrawal request and approval request to former Vice Minister Kim on March 23 of that year did not have a commission from the prosecutor of the Seoul East District Prosecutor’s Office. 3. 23. It was sent to the officials of the Immigration Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice by handwriting it as’Han Chan-shik, the father of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office,’ and then taking a picture and sending it. Since then, the “Central District Prosecutors’ Office No. 65889 in 2013” (the case number for which former Vice Minister Kim was acquitted in 2013) was re-transmitted to the false case number “Seoul East District Prosecutors’ Office No. 1 in 2019”. .

However, this report was not eventually delivered to the Suwon High Court. On July 4 of the same year, the investigation team submitted an investigation result report to the Anti-Corruption Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.In an urgent situation at night, the procedure for preparing related documents was in progress, and it was confirmed that a follow-up report was made to the Dongbu District Prosecutors’ Office.I wrote. Public interest reporter “It is written including the phrase requested by the anti-corruption departmentInsisted.

At that time, the peak of the anti-corruption report line of the great swordsman leads to Lee Seong-yoon, head of the anti-corruption department (currently, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office).

The public interest reporter said, “We do not know the details of the detailed report of each stage inside the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office at the time,” and only Seoul Central District Prosecutor General Lee Seong-yoon, who was in charge of the anti-corruption department at the time, reported the charges of obstructing the exercise of ex officio abuse rights. The reason is that it intervened in the investigation of immigration officials at the time and stopped further investigations against Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won and Immigration Headquarters Cha Gyu-geun.

Reporter Ha Jun-ho [email protected]