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The prosecution investigating the suspicion of the illegal departure of Kim Hak-eui against the former vice minister of the Ministry of Justice turned the cases of the prosecutor into the high-ranking officials’ criminal investigation office.
It is paying attention to whether it will be the first case of the airlift, but Kim Jin-wook, chief of the airlift, did not say that he would decide after reviewing the records.
Let’s connect reporters to hear more details. Reporter Na Hye-in!
The prosecution only handed over some cases in which the suspects were incumbent prosecutors, right?
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Yes, the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office today handed over the case against the prosecutor to the airlift among the suspects involved in the allegations of the illegal departure of Kim Hak-ei.
It is in accordance with Article 25, Paragraph 2 of the Airlift Law, that if another investigative agency finds the prosecutor’s criminal charges, the case must be handed over to the airlift.
Accordingly, related documents such as investigation records also arrived at the airlift at around 11 am.
The targets of the investigation that were handed over to the airlift are the prosecutors of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office’s past history fact-finding team at the time of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, who requested an emergency ban on departure from former Vice Minister Kim, last year.
First, prosecutor Gyu-won Lee is under suspicion of requesting an emergency ban on departure from former Vice Minister Kim with a case number that had already been dismissed two years ago, and submitting a post-approval request to the Ministry of Justice with a fake internal ID number.
District Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon is suspected of having stopped the investigation of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, Anyang District, who caught the situation of illegal departure as the anti-corruption force chief at the time, through external pressure.
Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won was investigated for suspects at Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office four times last month, and Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon received three summons requests, but all refused.
He was transferred to the airlift, but it is unclear whether this case will be the first airlifter case.
This is because there is a practical limitation in that the Ministry of Public Affairs does not have personnel for investigation, such as the fact that it has not yet established a prosecutor’s personnel committee.
For this reason, there are observations that there is a possibility that the air defense agency may pass the case back to the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office.
In this regard, the prosecutor’s office, Lee Seong-yoon, insisted that the prosecution cannot get back the case involving prosecutors that have passed to the air-lift for the legislative purpose of the air-lift law.
In addition to the provision that the case can be re-transferred, the spy clause on the prosecutor’s criminal charges was interpreted as the exclusive jurisdiction of the airlift as it is a mandatory and compulsory rule.
Airborne Minister Kim Jin-wook was spared, saying that he would first look at the incident record to understand the contents and then find the most appropriate way to implement it at this point in time.
However, as the chief and the deputy chief are legal officers, and there are 10 dispatched investigators, the possibility of a direct investigation was not very close, saying that the airlift is not in a situation where the agency does not have the ability to investigate at all.
This is Hyein Na, YTN from the Ministry of Social Affairs.
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