[속보]Seized and searched Seocho-seo in charge of the late’Lee Yong-gu taxi driver assault case’

The prosecution, who is investigating the assault case of a taxi driver by Vice Minister of Justice Yong-gu Yong-gu, went on a seizure and search of the Seocho Police Station in Seoul, where the first case was handled.

The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office 5th Criminal Division (Director Dong-Eon Lee) announced that it had executed a seizure and search warrant for the Seocho-seo office on the morning of the 27th.

It has been two days since the prosecution called an official from a black box restoration company as a reference on the 25th to investigate. The official said he had restored the taxi driver’s black box the day after the assault, and made a statement that he made a phone call to the investigator Seocho-seo, who was in charge of the case.

On the night of November 6, last year, Vice Minister Lee assaulted a taxi driver trying to awaken himself from being drunk in an apartment in Seocho-gu, Seoul. The police applied the crime of general assault to Deputy Minister Lee, not the special law, and the case was closed after the taxi driver revealed that he did not want punishment.

Afterwards, the police explained that it was difficult to determine if the taxi driver was driving at the time of the assault by Vice Minister Lee because there was no evidence such as a black box video. However, it was belatedly revealed that the investigator in charge applied only the charges of assault even after checking the black box video. Some civic groups accused Lee of assaulting the driver under the Special Act, and the police who closed the case accused him of abandonment.

The prosecution plans to summon the investigator to investigate sooner or later. If the investigator checks the black box video and closes the case, and the Vice Minister or a police officer is involved, it could be a bad thing for the police in the adjustment of the prosecutor’s and police officers’ right to investigate.

Reporter Lee Ga-young [email protected]