Former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui, accused of bribery under the Aggravated Punishment Act for specific crimes, heads to the court of the Seoul High Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul to attend the hearing for appeals on the afternoon of October 28 last year. yunhap news
Park Bum-gye’s hearing was the hearing of Kim Hak’s case.
The controversy over the prohibition of illegal emergency departure against former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-e has rapidly emerged as the biggest issue at the personnel hearing for the candidate Park Bum-gye, scheduled for the 25th. This is because a large number of former and current high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Justice can be on the line of prosecution investigations.
“Respondent, Sang Sang Park, Oh Soo Kim, Gyu Geun Cha”
According to the public interest report on the emergency withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim, obtained by the JoongAng Ilbo, the first report target was Park Sang-sang, former Minister of Justice. The public interest reporter reported that senior officials of the Ministry of Justice, including former Vice Minister of Justice Kim O-soo and current Minister of Immigration and Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Justice Cha Gyu-geun, were also involved in illegal activities, and indicated the name of the report.
In this way, when the public interest reporter made an emergency withdrawal to former Vice Minister Kim at the dawn of March 23, 2019, it was timely to report to the top executives who served in the Ministry of Justice, and the emergency withdrawal measures at that time were not the departure of the frontline officials in charge of immigration, but the command. It is analyzed that it was judged to be according to the organizational behavior of the company.
On the afternoon of September 9, 2019, former Justice Minister Park Sang-sang is getting in a vehicle with applause after completing the resignation ceremony held at the Gwacheon Government Complex in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province. Former Minister Park, right is Osu Kim, former Vice Minister of Justice. News 1
In fact, in the report, not only the false application made by Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won of the fact-finding group of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office at the time for emergency withdrawal measures, but also the circumstances in which officials belonging to the Ministry of Justice participated in illegal activities in all directions are recorded in detail along with evidence. Also attached is the fact that frontline officials of the Ministry of Justice have inquired about the entry and exit of former Vice Minister Kim several hundred times before Kim’s attempt to leave the country.
野 “A massive illegal activity of the Ministry of Justice”
In this regard, Ho-Young Joo, the National Power of the People’s Power, said through his SNS on the same day, “Because there was a strict mandate from the President to’Strictly punish the former vice minister of Kim Hak’, he illegally went in and out of the government’s official information network and randomized an individual who was not a criminal suspect. Should I tolerate illegal inspections?” A member of the power of the people who was a legal person who encountered the report said, “The data are detailed enough to start a forced investigation of the relevant personnel with only the report.” The likelihood of happening is close to zero.”
In addition, in the political world, the possibility of the Blue House Civil Affairs Chief’s Office during the emergency withdrawal is spreading. It is because of the close relationship between Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won, who led the emergency withdrawal, and Lee Gwang-cheol, the senior administrative officer of the Civil Administration’s Office at the time (currently, the civil administration secretary). The two are 36th classmates of the Judicial Research and Training Institute and have worked at the same law firm.
Blue House Civil Affairs Secretary Lee Gwang-cheol attended the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul on January 29 last year to investigate the Blue House investigation and allegations of election intervention. This secretary is Prosecutor Gyu-won Lee, who led the emergency ban on departure from former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui and a fellow student at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. The two also worked for the same law firm. News 1
An attorney from the 36th year of the training center said, “I know that the two of them made friends as members of the’Unification Law Society’ together when they were trainees.” Rep. Kwak Sang-do said, “There are several circumstances in which the’Lee Kwang-cheol-Lee Gyu-won’ line was working to amplify the case of Kim Hak as well as emergency withdrawals.”
Bum-gye Park “I can’t stand to speak”
However, despite the widespread illegal activities of former and current officials, the Ministry of Justice said on the 12th that it is necessary to consider the urgent and inevitable circumstances in which a former high-ranking public official, who was under serious charges, was on the verge of fleeing abroad at night. After clarification, the official position has not been expressed until now.
Minister Chu Mi-ae, who has revealed his position on various issues through social media, is also silent on this issue. Regarding this issue, candidate Park Bum-gye, the new Justice Minister candidate, also said, “I am not in a position to speak from my position” on the way to work at the office of the personnel hearing preparation group the day before.
Candidate Park Bum-gye, Minister of Justice, is answering questions from reporters as he goes to the office for a personnel hearing prepared at Seoul High Prosecutor’s Office in Seocho-dong on the 14th. yunhap news
In the opposition, if President Moon Jae-in appoints Park as the minister, it is believed that candidate Park may immediately perform the prosecution personnel to dismantle the investigation team and transfer the case to the airlift. The National Assembly personnel hearing held on the 25th will also intensively examine the position of Candidate Park in this regard.
Rep. Cho Su-jin, a member of the National Assembly’s Judiciary Committee, criticized, “The Ministry of Justice, who relegated and disciplined prosecutors who conducted passport-related investigations without any grounds, remains silent on this case.” “In any case, investigations followed by illegal and illegal procedural law cannot be recognized.” “Is the illegality of the’prosecutor on our side’ good illegal? This is a typical Narrow Nambul”.
Reporter Kijeong Kim [email protected]