[단독]’Kim Hak’s illegal withdrawal’ was also summoned by the missing prosecutor from the investigation team

On the night of March 22, 2019, former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui is leaving the airport after being banned from leaving the country while trying to board a plane bound for Thailand at Incheon Airport. Recently, there has been a public official report that this process is illegal withdrawal due to manipulation of documents and records by the Ministry of Justice and the prosecution, and the prosecution has initiated an investigation. [JTBC 캡처]

It was confirmed that the prosecution, who is investigating the suspected illegal emergency ban (withdrawal) of Kim Hak-ei, the former vice minister of the Ministry of Justice, summoned prosecutor A, who investigated the case of leaking departure information in 2019. The prosecution also revealed that at the time, prosecutor A said that it was impossible to write a decision of no charge (with respect to allegations of emergency withdrawal), and then it was found that the situation was excluded from the investigation.

The Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office (Prosecutor Lee Jeong-seop), the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office, summoned and investigated Prosecutor A of the Anyang District Prosecutor’s Office in 2019.

According to the JoongAng Ilbo report on the 27th, Prosecutor A was the main prosecutor who investigated the immigration headquarters staff of the Ministry of Justice at the time. In April 2019, prosecutor A and other investigative teams identified an emergency withdrawal request containing prosecutor Gyu-won Lee’s fake case number and post-approval by Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigners Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice. In addition, the investigation team also established an investigation plan for the prosecutor and the head of the car headquarters, as the prosecutor’s request for an emergency withdrawal in the name of the Seoul East District Prosecutor’s Office could correspond to the preparation of a false official document for the condemnation of qualifications.

However, from the end of June of that year, orders from the Prosecutors’ Office of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Anti-Corruption began to inundate orders to stop further investigations through various channels. The anti-corruption ministry even ordered “Do not investigate the rest of the area except for the leakage of withdrawal information.”

In this process, Prosecutor A revealed that it means’it is impossible to write a decision in this way’, and in this process, the case was reassigned and excluded from the investigation. It is said that the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office investigation team also investigated the process of cultivation, which was unfair.

The external pressure of the head of the head, such as the anti-corruption of the great sword, is also detailed in the second public interest report.

Lee Seong-yoon, Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office[뉴스1]

On the 26th, two days after the summons investigation of Prosecutor A, the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office also confiscated and searched the anti-corruption force of the great swordsman. The investigation team said that the Ministry of Anti-Corruption secured all of the reports containing future investigation plans, including the “Department of Immigration Headquarters Calls,” reported to the Ministry of Anti-Corruption and Power of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in early July 2019.

An attorney from a prosecution said, “The seizure and search of the anti-corruption part of the great prosecution seems to be a’one-point seizure search’ trying to secure certain reports or files, rather than a backward seizure search.”

According to the analysis of the data confiscated by the prosecution, there is a prospect that the investigation may be expanded to the head of the then-high prosecutor, such as Lee Seong-yoon, then head of the anti-corruption (currently, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office).

Reporters Jeong Yu-jin, Kang Kwang-woo, Jung Jin-ho, and Kim Soo-min [email protected]