When Justice Minister Park Beom-gye invoked the authority to conduct investigations on behalf of Prosecutor General Cho Nam-gwan in relation to the suspected case of a suspected teacher of perjury at the court of former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook, it is known that Cho is considering whether or not to accept it.
The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office is reviewing a plan to present a position today (18th) regarding whether or not the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office will be held in relation to Minister Park’s exercise of the investigative command.
Immediately after the exercise of the investigative command right, Acting Nam-gwan Jo held a meeting of the chief prosecutor’s office to discuss the acceptance of the investigative command authority and subsequent procedures.
It is said that Acting Nam-gwan Jo has not yet delivered specific instructions to the chief swordsman.
Some executives of the Supreme Swords said, “For four days, let’s put aside the issues of each department and only look at the record of perjury teacher suspicion related to the trial of the former prime minister?”
In the process of concluding that the case was not suspicious on the 5th, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office emphasized that “they went through a rational decision-making process,” such as accepting the opinions of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, but the Ministry of Justice, on the contrary, claimed that there was an irrational part in the decision-making process. I told them to review again.
Inside the prosecution, “If a conclusion is different from the judgment of the Ministry of Justice, is it not that the minister is trying to change the conclusion as desired by exercising the investigative command right?” Is coming out.
This is the reason why Acting Nam-gwan Cho is deeply concerned about whether to accept command.
Even if Acting Nam-gwan Cho accepts the authority to command the investigation, some point out on the bias in the formation of the Great Swordsman Vice-Presidents’ Meeting.
Lee Jung-hyun, head of the public investigation department, Lee Jong-geun, head of the criminal investigation department, Ko Gyeong-soon, head of the trial and service department, Shin Seong-shik, the head of the anti-corruption force department, and Han Dong-soo, the head of the prosecutor’s office, are all evaluated as pro-government prosecutors.
According to the rule of thumb for the Great Swordsman, the Prosecutor General has partially changed the composition of the Great Sword Vice Presidency meeting so that the High Prosecutor General can also participate.
Accordingly, there is a possibility that the conflict between the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Swordsman will reignite depending on whether or not Acting Nam-gwan Cho accepts the authority of the investigation, or even if it does, depending on how it takes the composition of the Supreme Sword Vice Presidency meeting.
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