[속보] ‘Illegal withdrawal of Kim Hak’ Cha Gyu-geun, arrest warrant dismissed

[속보] ‘Illegal withdrawal of Kim Hak’ Cha Gyu-geun, arrest warrant dismissed

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Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigner Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, who is suspected of banning illegal departure from the former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui, is present at the Suwon District Court in Gyeonggi-do on the morning of the 5th to receive an interrogation of the suspect before arrest. Newsis

Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigner Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, who is suspected of banning illegal departure from the former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui, is present at the Suwon District Court in Gyeonggi-do on the morning of the 5th to receive an interrogation of the suspect before arrest. Newsis

On the 6th, an arrest warrant against the head of the Immigration and Foreign Policy Headquarters Cha Gyu-geun, who was accused of banning the illegal departure of Kim Hak’s former vice-minister of the Ministry of Justice, was dismissed in the court on the 6th.

Suwon District Court, who conducted an interrogation of the suspect before arrest (substantial warrant examination) by the head of the headquarters of Cha, said, “The matter is not light when considering the necessity of strict due process compliance,” and “Evidence collected in the investigation process up to now. It is difficult to admit the necessity of arrest because it is difficult to judge that there is fear of destruction of evidence or fear of escape in light of the data and the attitude of the suspect to the investigation,” he explained the reason for the dismissal of the warrant.

The Prosecutor’s Office reported the personal information inquiry, including the name, date of birth, and immigration control information of former Vice Minister Kim, 177 times from the morning of March 19, 2019 to the afternoon of the 22nd of the same month, through officials in the Immigration Division of the Ministry of Justice. I suspect that I have received it. In addition, it is believed that the head of the Cha headquarters approved the withdrawal request on the morning of the 23rd, a day later, knowing the circumstances that the prosecutor of the Past Photographic Investigation Group at the time of the Great Prosecutor’s Office at the time was illegally taking an emergency withdrawal action against former Vice Minister Kim.

While attending the warrant deliberation on the 5th, Cha headquarters claimed that “it was not done illegally at all” about the withdrawal measures of former Vice Minister Kim. “At the time, (Former Vice Minister Kim) was highly likely to flee overseas, and it was confirmed that he tried to escape overseas by secretly using automatic immigration late at night on March 22, 2019,” he said.

Reporters Wonseok Oh and Jihye Kim [email protected]


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