[사회]Im Eun-jung,’Han Myung-sook case’ exclusion of job exclusion… Great Sword “I have never left the case”

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Im Eun-jeong, a prosecution policy researcher at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, actually withdrew from the case while investigating the suspicion that the prosecutors who investigated the bribery case of the former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook had perjured witnesses.

Researcher Lim revealed that he was excluded from the job in the case under the direction of President Yoon Suk-yeol.

The Great Swordsman refuted that it was not a job exclusion, saying that he had never entrusted the case to Researcher Lim in the first place.

Let’s connect reporters and hear more details. Reporter Han Dong-oh!

Yesterday, researcher Lim revealed this situation on social media for the first time, right?

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Researcher Lim posted a post on his SNS yesterday evening.

Five days after being granted the right to investigate, former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook claimed to have been excluded from his duties in cases of perjury.

Subsequently, the people who gave the order were Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol and Deputy Prosecutor Cho Nam-gwan.

Researcher Lim said that he received a letter from the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office yesterday that corresponds to a job exclusion.

The statute of limitations was very imminent, and in a case where there was a suspicion of involvement with President Yoon’s closest aide, he said it was frustrating because he was excluded from his job.

In addition, he criticized that it was a very wrong choice for justice, the prosecution, and General Yoon, and that it was regrettable and sighed.

In an article I posted this morning, I even disclosed the process of investigating the incident and reporting it to the top.

Researcher Lim was appointed as a prosecutor at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office on the 26th of last month, and he was given the right to investigate.

On the day of greeting, Researcher Lim reported that the report on the investigation result of the former Prime Minister’s case was reported to the Ministry of Justice, and a letter of approval was issued to the president and deputy chief prosecutor of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, but he said it was rejected.

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The great sword wasn’t assigned the case to Researcher Lim in the first place, so it wasn’t a job exclusion, right?

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Immediately after Researcher Lim’s disclosure, the Great Sword issued a statement.

Regarding the case of former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook, President Yoon said that he had never assigned the case to Researcher Im, and that he had designated the Chief of Prosecutors’ Section 3 for the first time yesterday as the chief prosecutor.

In the first place, the case was never entrusted to Researcher Lim, so the job exclusion is not established.

In addition, Yoon explained that he instructed the chief prosecutor, the chief prosecutor, to collect and report the opinions of all the prosecutors who have participated in the case investigation, including Researcher Lim.

The opinions of the Human Rights Superintendent’s Office of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, which concluded last year’s acquittal, will also be gathered to determine whether the prosecutors of the investigation team at the time will be sued or prosecuted.

However, apart from the prosecution’s intention to look into the perjury case again, the clarification that the first prosecutor was designated for the first time in the case of the former prime minister, who had been relocated last year, is subject to criticism that the front and back are inconsistent.

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It’s job exclusion, no, the arguments are different, but researcher Lim can no longer investigate or investigate the case of the former prime minister, right?

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It is virtually impossible for a researcher to conduct additional investigations or investigations as long as the 3rd supervisory supervisor has been designated as the chief prosecutor.

This is because Researcher Lim is not affiliated with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd departments of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office under the prosecution’s office, but is directly under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office.

An official at the prosecution explained that researcher Lim’s opinions are not excluded, and that researcher Lim’s opinions are being gathered to discuss whether or not the case has been filed.

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By the way, in the case of the alleged perjury involving former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook, the statute of limitations is expiring this month?

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Former Prime Minister Han was already convicted in the Supreme Court for receiving illegal political funds in 2015.

However, suspicion was raised that the prosecution investigation team at that time forced the witnesses to perjury and conducted a coercive investigation.

At the time, the prosecution investigation team made the so-called’testimony practice’ to a witness before trial in order to convict a former prime minister, and through this practice, the statement became concrete and elaborate, and it was finally accepted by the court.

It is alleged that Yoon’s aide was involved in the suspected case of a perjury teacher, and that special pain prosecutors conducted an unreasonable investigation.

However, as the case was concluded with no charges in the Human Rights Superintendent’s Office of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office last year, there are also counterarguments that the suspicion was raised without grounds.

The problem is the statute of limitations.

The statute of limitations on the alleged perjury case is only 19 days left, so it is unclear whether it will be possible to further confirm the authenticity of the allegation.

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In the past, former Minister Choo Mi-ae ordered the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office to investigate the case and had a conflict with Yoon, but what is the position of Minister Park Beom-gye?

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Minister Park Beom-gye also criticized the great sword’s actions.

Today, on the way to work at the Gwacheon Government Complex, I told reporters about the position.

Minister Park has been asking whether the great swordsman should be prevented from conducting an investigation, but pointed out that it is contrary to the position of the great swordsman to prevent investigating Researcher Lim.

Some have argued that the Minister of Justice’s authority to command the investigation should be invoked, but it is unlikely that Park will establish a confrontation with President Yoon right away.

Former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae, who had instructed the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office to investigate the case in the past, strongly criticized Yoon and insisted that the case should be returned to Researcher Im.

As Yoon is holding public opinion wars on the Severe Crime Investigation Office day after day, it seems that it remains to be seen whether the conflict between the Ministry of Justice and the prosecution will further amplify as researcher Lim’s job exclusion controversy.

YTN Han Dong-oh at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office[[email protected]]is.

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