Kim Nam-guk, a member of the Democratic Party. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
Regarding the prosecution’s decision on the 17th to investigate the case of a ban on the departure of former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eop, which was controversial over illegality, Kim Nam-guk said, “It’s so uncomfortable that there is a strong suspicion of’retaliation investigation’,’taking out’ so that even private feelings are felt Insisted. He referred to Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol’s past remarks, “If you retaliate with the right of investigation, is it a gangster?”
Rep. Kim said in an article posted on Facebook that day, “Excluding those who were in a really responsible position at the time, only Central District Attorney General Lee Seong-yoon and the line prosecutors in the Yoon’s family case were targeted for investigation.” .
In addition, “the public’s power accused him of being investigated by the competent prosecutor’s office, the Anyang branch, and was redeployed to a prosecutor who can be called his close friend to form a large-scale investigation team.” Can you say that the investigation is not really a’retaliation investigation’?”
He added, “It will never be the appearance of promising to become a’prosecutor for the people’ to catch anything I don’t like and film it with all my utmost effort,” he said. “Because this is an investigation that can be misunderstood and controversial, it has been accused. Inevitably, if the investigation procedure is to be conducted in a limited manner, the police should investigate fairly, not the prosecution,” he argued.
Earlier, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office announced on the 13th that the case of the banning of departure from former Vice Minister Kim, who was in charge of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, was reassigned to the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, saying “to investigate the allegations raised more faithfully”. Accordingly, the case is investigated by the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, 3rd Department of Criminal Prosecutors’ Office (Director Jeong-seop Lee), and the Supreme Swordsman’s Anti-Corruption and Power Department is commanded.
Meanwhile, former Vice Minister Kim was banned from leaving the country in March 2019, when he was investigated for suspicion of sexual hospitality and bribery at the villa. However, controversy arose as suspicion that there was a procedural problem in the process of banning departure at the time was raised around opposition parties.
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