It was confirmed on the 8th that the court stamped “issuance” on the arrest warrant of the immigration and foreigner policy headquarter of the Ministry of Justice, which is the core of the allegations of Kim Hak’s illegal departure ban, and erased it in white and sealed it with “dismissal”. The court clarified that the judge in charge corrected the simple mistake in the process of imprinting, but some suspicions of external pressure were also raised.
Court “Judge misunderstood and stamped incorrectly”
Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigner Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, who is suspected of banning illegal departure from the former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui, is present at the Suwon District Court in Gyeonggi-do on the morning of the 5th to receive an interrogation of the suspect before arrest. Newsis
According to the courts on the day, Suwon District Law Judge Oh Dae-seok in charge of warrants stamped the stamp on the issuance side of the seal column at the top of the request for arrest warrant of Cha headquarters to the prosecutor’s office on the 6th, erased it with the correction amount, and stamped the dismissal side again and returned it to the prosecution. When the prosecution requests a warrant for arrest against the suspect, the court returns it to the prosecution after substantive examination and writes the result and reason for issuance and dismissal to the prosecution, leaving a trace of revising “issuance” to “dismissal”.
The court clarified that it was “a mistake that was made by mistaken the issuance and dismissal at the moment” and “there was absolutely no external pressure”. The judge in charge writes a letter of explanation in advance and finally stamps the seal on the seal, and I heard that the decision was based on the fact that there was no evidence of revision.
Only’regime related cases’?… Suspicion of external pressure
However, there were also doubts about whether it was possible to make the opposite of the arrest warrant for key figures in major government-related events. One local prosecutor said, “It’s a mistake that courts often make, but in practice it’s not that common, and it shouldn’t be that common.” Another prosecutor said, “If the judge in charge stamps the stamp and reports it to the court administration, and the result is corrected, it could lead to a serious problem of a different level.”
A similar controversy occurred at the time of Dongkuk Steel Chairman Jang Se-ju, when an arrest warrant was requested for embezzlement and gambling in 2015. At that time, it turned out that the judge in charge stamped the stamp in the’Issue’ column at the top of the warrant request, corrected it, and then stamped it in the’Dismissal’ column again. There is also a case of former Cheon Byeong-hun, former head of the Blue House, who was suspicious of bribery in 2017. In both cases, the court clarified that it was a “often mistaken mistake.” Afterwards, Chairman Se-ju Jang was arrested after the prosecution reclaimed the warrant, and former chief Jeon Byung-hun was sentenced to imprisonment at the first trial, but was not arrested in court.
In March 2019, Prosecutor Gyu-won Lee of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Past Photographic Investigation Group, who did not have the authority to ban emergency departure, approved the emergency withdrawal document with the fake case number written down, and implemented a passenger information preliminary analysis system to monitor the departure trend of former Vice Minister Kim. An arrest warrant was requested for illegal use. Suwon District Law said, “The issue is not light when considering the necessity of strict due process compliance, etc.,” at around 2 a.m. on the 6th. It is difficult to judge that there is concern or fear of fleeing,” he dismissed the warrant.
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