[단독]’Kim Hak’s External Pressure’ Prosecutor Keyman is also summoned…

Kim Hak-eui, former Vice Minister of Justice. [연합뉴스]

It was confirmed that the prosecution, who is investigating the suspected illegal departure (withdrawal) of Kim Hak-eui, the former vice minister of the Ministry of Justice, summoned and investigated the then-investigative prosecutor of the Anyang District Office’s investigation team, a key person to identify “supervisory external pressure” during the 2019 investigation. In the future, there are observations that the prosecution’s sword tip will aim at the anti-corruption chief of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office at the time, Lee Seong-yoon.

According to the JoongAng Ilbo coverage on the 29th, the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office (Team Leader Lee Jeong-seop, 3rd Detective Division Chief) recently investigated the Prosecutor of Director B, who investigated the case of leakage of departure information in 2019. Prosecutor B was in charge of closing the case of leakage of departure information at the time, and served as the’in charge of the investigation’.

Initially, the chief prosecutor in the case of the outflow of departure information for former Vice Minister Kim was not prosecutor B, but prosecutor A.

At the time, prosecutor A persisted, saying, “It is impossible to write a decision to dispose of three immigration officers and two public interest judges without charge against Kim’s immigration records,” but the case was redistributed and was excluded from the investigation. Inevitably, it is said that the investigation was completed by Prosecutor B.

Suspicion of’external pressure’ by the anti-corruption team at the time arose during the process of this inconvenient reorganization. According to the second public interest report submitted to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea on the 20th, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of Anti-Corruption pressured the investigation team at the time with the aim of “find the investigation without proceeding with the investigation on whether an emergency withdrawal was illegal.”

In response, the prosecution called Prosecutor A on the 24th to investigate, and on the 26th, prosecutor C, who was the command of the Anyang branch at the time, also investigated, and received statements from both the investigation and command line of the Anyang branch at that time about the reassignment of the case and the details of its closing. In addition, on the 26th, it is said that the anti-corruption department of the great swordsman was seized and searched, and many of the data reported by the Anyang branch at the time were also secured.

On the 21st, when the Ministry of Justice conducted a seizure and search for the alleged prohibition of illegal departure from former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-e, prosecution officials are carrying out confiscated goods after completing the seizure search of the Justice Advisory Office of the Fair Trade Commission of the Government Complex Sejong. method [뉴시스]

As the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office secured the situation of external pressure during the 1st investigation of the Anyang District in 2019, the investigation into the anti-corruption report line instructed by the prosecutor Gyu-won Lee’s illegal emergency withdrawal request and the approval of the Immigration Headquarters Cha Gyu-geun, etc. Increased the likelihood of heading.

There has already been an expectation that Suwon District Prosecutors will be able to summon Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office Lee Seong-yoon sooner or later, both inside and outside the prosecution. This is because the public interest reporter appointed Mr. Lee as the person in charge of exerting external pressure to stop the investigation and reported it for abuse of authority. It is difficult to avoid the final responsibility as the chief prosecutor’s office as anti-corruption chief if it turns out that external pressure to stop the investigation at the time is true.

Regarding this, an attorney from a prosecutor said, “If it is true that the investigation team at the time was under external pressure, it can be seen as a’victim of abuse of authority’,” and said, “It will be inevitable to summon Prosecutor Lee, the ultimate decision maker of the anti-corruption department at the great prosecution.” .

Lee Seong-yoon, Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office[뉴스1]

On the other hand, even in the investigation of the suspicion of ‘geomyeonseo’, which was the most controversial since his inauguration, there is an evaluation that he was in ‘four-faced song’.

First of all, Criminal Division 1 (Director Pil-Geon Byun) under the command of Prosecutor Lee, issued several electronic approvals of his innocence against Prosecutor Han Dong-hoon in relation to the Channel A case. All of the prosecutors of the investigation team, headed by Chief Prosecutor Byeon, visited the District Prosecutor’s Office and requested approval. It is an extremely unusual situation for the prosecution for the investigation team to repeatedly raise the approval that the command rejected and collectively protest.

On the other hand, in the case of the suspicion of’conflict of powers’, which is a confrontation of so-called’conflict of opinions’, the investigation team of the 1st criminal investigation team decided to prosecute. The Open Democratic Party’s representative Choi Kang-wook was handed over to trial on the 27th on charges of defaming the reputation by spreading false facts that former Channel A reporter Lee Dong-jae threatened reporters with the aim of becoming Chairman of the Roh Moo Hyun-dan, Yoo Si-min. CEO Choi said on Facebook in April last year that former reporter Lee Chul Lee, former CEO of Value Invest Korea, said, “Tell me that you gave money to Chairman Yoo Si-min. Then the life of Ryu Si-min will end,” “The approval rating of President Moon will fall endlessly, and the future united party will take over” and other threatening remarks, but it turned out to be a fake.

In addition, the prosecution indicted MBC’s “Former Deputy Prime Minister Choi Gyeong-hwan and Shillazen’s suspicion of an investment of 6.5 billion won” as a misinformation, and prosecuted former VIK CEO Lee Chul, who reported this to MBC, for defamation of Choi’s former vice-prime minister.

Regarding this, a high-ranking prosecution officer pointed out, “This is the result of showing that the’conflict of powers’ rather than’conflict of prosecutions’ is the truth.”

Reporters Sumin Kim and Yujin Jung [email protected]