[아침신문 솎아보기] In response to the criticism of Yoon Seok-yeol’s intention,’explosion of a sense of crisis”Reenactment of the swordsman’

Allegations of speculation were raised that the employees of Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) purchased a total of 10 billion won worth of land in advance of the government’s announcement of a housing supply plan for Gwangmyeong and Siheung new cities. In a paper report on the 3rd that dealt with this, a criticism came out that “they left the fish to the cat.”

Attorneys’ Meeting for Democratic Society (Minbyun) and the Solidarity of Participation held a press conference on the 2nd, and as a result of surveying the land ledger of the new city area, about 10 employees confirmed the situation in which they had previously purchased about 7,000 pyeong worth of land equivalent to 10 billion won. The groups said they initiated an investigation after receiving reports that LH employees were buying land for speculation.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced plans to supply housing to new cities in Gwangmyeong and Siheung on the 24th of last month. According to Minbyun et al., 14 LH employees and their families purchased a total of 10 lots in the new city-selected area of ​​Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do from April 2018 to June 2020. The purchase price is estimated at 10 billion won, of which 5.8 billion won is the amount of loans to financial institutions.

Minbyun and the Participation Solidarity announced that they confirmed this fact as a result of comparing and analyzing the land title and the names of LH employees by randomly selecting the land traded in the new city-selected area. Many of the employees whose speculation allegations were raised were reported to be in charge of compensation at LH.

Most of the land they bought was farmland. The possibility of speculation is suspected as it is possible to receive compensation for acceptance or compensation for land (land compensation method) after development. Kim Nam-geun, an executive member of the Participation Solidarity, said, “To purchase farmland, you have to submit a farming plan, but it is difficult for LH staff to do farming at the same time,” and said, “It can be seen as a purchase for the purpose of speculation by submitting a false or exaggerated plan.”

Segye Ilbo said, “In LH, the atmosphere that “what I was concerned about has exploded” is prevalent.” LH Han said, “There are many temptations to be able to do when doing a big government project like a new city, but it’s disastrous because our executives and employees couldn’t overcome the temptation.” A high-ranking executive’s point of view was included. He added that the Gwangmyeong and Siheung districts, which are the third new cities, are considered to be a net exhaust area with good accessibility to Seoul.

The Segye Ilbo analyzed that “in some lands, when the new city was announced through the 2·4 supply measures, a situation where extensive tree planting took place.” “Usually, if trees are planted in the land, the amount of compensation increases.”

If the allegation of speculation is confirmed to be true, undisclosed information obtained by KDHC employees was used to pursue private interests, and violations of the Public Officials Ethics Act or Anti-Corruption Act may be applied. Minbyun and the Participation Solidarity plan to submit a request for audit to the auditor against them. The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs also announced that it will proceed with an investigation request, complaint, or prosecution if any illegal matters are found.

Prosecutor General “Opposite Heavy Water Administration”

Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol came to the fore by openly opposing the establishment of a serious crime investigation office (investigation office) that the government and the ruling party strongly push. “The’complete deprivation of the prosecution’s right to investigate’ is the position of a retreat of history that brings our society back to the era of’political and political conflict’.” The media pointed to the sense of crisis for the existence of the prosecution against the background, saying that the prosecutor general had taken part in public opinion.

Yoon responded to multiple media interviews on the 2nd, saying, “The deprivation of the prosecutor’s right to investigate is that the judicial police will eventually concentrate the power of investigation.” “Returning to the era of’absolute corruption of absolute power’, and when the fair society and market system collapse, the weak person is weak. Wow, only the common people will suffer damage,” he criticized.

The JoongAng Ilbo said in an interview on the 2nd, “Let’s maintain and reinforce the capacity to investigate serious crimes by creating an anti-corruption investigation office, a financial investigation office, and a security office that integrates the investigation and prosecution of prosecutors even under the Ministry of Justice.” He pointed out, “We made a reverse proposal to the Great Crimes Investigation Office (the Heavy Water Service), which is pursuing the premise of the abolition of the prosecution’s direct investigation right.

In this regard, General Yoon said, “It is okay to remove all (prosecutors) under me.” “We have to take the investigation office and the Ministry of Public Security out of the jurisdiction of the President, and create a security office to build a national response capacity for major crimes by fusion of investigation and prosecution.”

The Seoul newspaper analyzed the atmosphere of intensifying opposition within the prosecution due to the criticism of President Yoon’s intention, and analyzed that “the situation cannot be ruled out even for a re-announcement of’Gamran’.” In fact, on the bulletin board inside the Prosecutor’s Office, prosecutors from each branch across the country post a series of protests against the establishment of the Heavy Water Office under their real names.

The Hankyoreh said, “There seems to be a sense of internal crisis of’the threat of the existence of the prosecution’s organization’ and a realistic judgment that as an individual President Yoon, who is about to retire in July, has nothing to lose. There is also an aspect that gave a justification for Lee Yun’s appearance,” he analyzed.

In addition, “inside and outside the prosecution, there are analyzes that President Yun’s remarks are an extension of his thorough’prosecutionist’ rather than a’political calculation’. If the prosecution does not investigate, it may lead to an insolvency investigation, or it is not possible to have an existing camp. Even after seeing the remarks that the prosecution has been faithfully investigated, the elite sense of’the prosecution is right’ is revealed,” said a former lawyer from the prosecutor’s office.

On the 3rd, President Yun is planning to make an additional position after gathering opinions from the national prosecutors’ office on the establishment of the heavy water office. There is a possibility that Yoon will make an additional position directly while visiting Daegu District Prosecutors’ Office and High Prosecutors’ Office on this day.

The case of perjury teacher Han Myung-sook investigation team remaining 19 days of prosecution

The prosecution policy researcher Im Eun-jeong of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office announced that the prosecution policy researcher Im Eun-jeong was excluded from the investigation under the direction of the Prosecutor General, while the statute of limitations on the investigation team’s investigation team of former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook expires on the 22nd. The Kyunghyang Shinmun predicted, “It is expected that Researcher Lim will focus on the case of the former Prime Minister, but the prosecution of the investigation team at the time will be virtually eliminated due to the exclusion of President Yoon’s duties.”

On the 2nd, researcher Lim said on his Facebook page on the 2nd, “7 days after he was granted the right to investigate, he was excluded from the former Prime Minister’s case under the orders of Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol and Deputy Prosecutor Nam-gwan Cho.” The president’s order of transfer of duties in the case of the suspected involvement of the president’s closest close associates was a very wrong choice for justice, for the prosecution, for the president,” he said.

The Great Swordsman refuted this, saying, “In the first place, the case was never assigned to Researcher Im.” In this case, he said that he did not designate a chief prosecutor and the case was not processed, and for the first time on the 2nd, Heo Jeong-soo, the chief prosecutor of the prosecutor’s office, was designated as the chief prosecutor.

It was evaluated that the conflict between the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Swordsman is re-escalation. On the 22nd of last month, the Ministry of Justice gave an investigation right to Researcher Im (adjunct appointment of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office) despite the opposition of Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, which caused friction in the personnel of the prosecutor’s office. This is an assessment that Yoon confronted the case by handing over the case to another prosecutor.

Will the’Kim Hak’s Case’ be transferred to the airlift?

Meanwhile, Kim Jin-wook, the head of the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation office (the head of the public prosecution), said that the case of the ban on illegal departure by former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui should be transferred to the airlift. On the same day, the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office investigating the case requested an arrest warrant for Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigner Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, on charges such as abuse of authority.

On the 2nd, Deputy Prosecutor Kim said that Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Lee Seong-yoon requested that the case should be transferred to the airlift, “according to Article 25, Paragraph 2 of the Airlift Act, it is said that if a charge of a high-ranking public official of the prosecutor is found, the case should be transferred.” Article 25, Paragraph 2 states,’If an investigative agency other than the investigative agency discovers the charges of a high-ranking public official by the prosecutor, the head of the investigative agency must transfer the case to the investigative agency.

The Segye Ilbo analyzed that on this day, Deputy Director Kim “he revealed the possibility that he could relocate to the airlift immediately.” At the point that the interpretation of the phrase’when a crime is suspected’ in Article 25, Paragraph 2 is divided, Director Kim said, “The article itself is clear. The point of prosecution is not to be considered late as the discovery of the charges.”

The Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office requested a preliminary arrest warrant on charges of abuse of authority from Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigners Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, who approved an emergency ban on departure from former Vice Minister Kim in March 2019. This is the first arrest warrant request for the person involved in the case. Accordingly, the head of the headquarters of Cha requested a convocation of the Prosecutors’ Investigation Deliberation Committee to the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office Citizens’ Committee.

According to the Chosun Ilbo, the investigation team said, “At the time, officials from the Immigration Department of the Ministry of Justice inquired 177 times before the emergency withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim, unauthorized inquiries including personal information including Kim’s name, date of birth, and immigration control information.” It is also known that he will also ask’Kim Hak’s charges for illegal inspection’.

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