The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office reported to the Ministry of Justice on the 20th that it would end the alleged perjury case related to the illegal political funding case of former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook without charge. Minister of Justice Park Beom-gye, who received the report on the results of such deliberation and disposition, did not give a special position, including whether or not, until the 21st. The Ministry of Justice announced that it would not make an official position on this day. In the legal profession, the observation that the Minister of Justice will accept the decision of the Supreme Swordsman is predominantly before midnight on the 22nd, when the Ministry of Justice judges that the statute of limitations in this case has expired.
Previously, on the decision of the Supreme Swordsman’s decision on the 5th, which had already concluded the case without charges, on the 17th, ▶He held a meeting of the Supreme Swordsman’s Vice President to deliberate on the suspicion and possibility of prosecution of the inmate Kim Mo. Until the 22nd, the investigative command authority was invoked to decide whether to file or prosecute Kim.
On the 18th, prosecutor-general Cho Nam-gwan said, “There are concerns inside and outside the prosecution that it is not enough to ensure fairness by meetings of only the chief prosecutors who work for the great prosecutor.” I said I would. On the 19th, as Minister Park accepted this, a meeting was held at the Great Swordsman Office on the 19th, at the Great Swordsman Office of the Great Swordsman and the Great Swordsman, with 14 members, including six high swordsmen, including Cho, Sang-cheol Cho, and 7 high swordsmen, such as the Planning and Coordination Department for Great Sword Jo Jung-tae. At the end of the 14-hour meeting, it was decided to maintain the existing disposition of innocence with 10 people in favor of the nonprosecution, 2 people against it, and 2 people withdrawal.
On the afternoon of the 19th, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-dong, Seoul, held a meeting to reconsider the case of “Suspicion of Harm Perjury of Former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook”, which was once freely dismissed (last 5 days). At this meeting, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office confirmed the disposition with 10 in favor, 2 objections, and 2 abstentions, and reported it to the Ministry of Justice on the 20th. News 1
◆Will Park Beom-gye accept the prosecution’s decision to be free from charges?=If Minister Park does not accept the conclusion of the great prosecution’s innocence, he must instruct Acting Jo to invoke the investigational command again and prosecute the inmate Kim for perjury by midnight on the 22nd. If this is the case, it is an investigation command that overturns the judgment of the Supreme Court in 2015 and the two times (last 5th and 19th) of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. This can cause further controversy, such as ex officio abuse, as the Minister of Justice actually exercises the right to prosecute directly.
However, on the 17th, at a briefing on the execution of the investigative command power of Minister Park on the 17th, Lee Jung-soo, the Prosecutor General of the Ministry of Justice, replied, “Yes,” to the question, “Does the Minister accept that the existing innocence is maintained?” When asked the same question during the Great Swords Meeting on the 19th, Minister Park said, “I haven’t thought about it yet. When the results come out, I will also see what the process was like.” Chief Prosecutor Han Dong-soo, who instructed the prosecutor to “listen to opinions,” even participated in the vote, and Im Eun-jeong, the prosecution policy researcher, also attended the meeting.
Justice Minister Park Beom-gye is leaving after encouraging employees to visit the Daegu District Prosecutor’s Office on the 18th. On the 17th, the day before, Minister Park invoked the authority to reconsider the decision to reconsider the suspicion of the Supreme Swordsman’s suspicion of perjury in the case of Prime Minister Han Myung-sook. yunhap news
◆ Did you not expect the’no charge decision’?After Minister Park’s investigation and command, there were many observations inside and outside the prosecution that “it will not be easy to overturn an accusation.” One lawyer who served as the chief prosecutor said, “If the prosecution was decided, the prosecution should have been closed on that day.” The opposition said, “People who confuse the people and the country with their wrong judgments must take responsibility” (Kim Ye-ryeong, spokesman for the People’s Power), and raised Park’s resignation argument.
Despite this burden, what is the reason why Minister Park invoked the authority to command the investigation? The legal profession said on the 17th, “For the investigation of the case of the former Prime Minister of Korea in 2010, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of the Ministry of Justice jointly conduct a special inspection, and promptly report the results and measures for improvement.” Pay attention to the points indicated together. Although seven years have passed since the expiration of the disciplinary statute (three years), it is interpreted as meaning that he will take a look at the investigation process of the investigation team at the time.
At that time, if the investigation team’s suspicion of misconduct is revealed, the conclusion of the innocence of the Great Sword Expansion Conference can be combined with the prosecution to frame’cover my family’. Some analysts say that the so-called’Prosecution Reform Season 2’can be built again, such as the complete deprivation of the prosecution’s right to investigate (complete the prosecution) and the establishment of a serious crime investigation office, which had been stunted by the resignation of former prosecutor general Yoon Seok-yeol. A chief prosecutor of the Financial District Prosecutor’s Office said, “You would not have expected the decision to be innocent as Secretary Park. It was aimed at directing the accusations of supporters to the prosecution and creating a’public enemy’.”
On August 24, 2015, former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook, before being imprisoned in front of a Seoul detention center, is shouting “Han Myung-sook is innocent” with members of the New Political Democratic Association (formerly Democratic Party) and supporters. On the left of former Prime Minister Han is the current Justice Minister Park Beom-gye, who was the first member of the National Assembly at the time. Central photo
The case of Myung-sook Han and Beom-gye Park= Minister Park was the central point of the pro-nuclear powers when Han Man-ho was investigated on charges of receiving bribes from former Korea Express President Kwak Young-wook in 2009, and illegal political funding from former CEO Han Shin-Geon-young in 2010. He was a member of the Chungcheong Regional Steering Committee of the’Citizens’ Rights Meeting’. At that time, the co-representatives of the Citizens’ Association were former Prime Minister Han and Lee Hae-chan, the former representative of the Democratic Party, and the secretary-general of the Democratic Party Kim Tae-nyeon.
When former Prime Minister Han was investigated by the prosecutors on charges of bribery, the Citizens’ Sovereignty Meeting was transformed into a joint countermeasure committee for reform of political prosecution and political work by the Lee Myung-bak regime, prosecutors, and Sugu media against former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook. In December 2009, when the prosecution issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Han, a protest was held to prevent this.
In a radio interview when former Prime Minister Han was sentenced to two years in prison by the Supreme Court in August 2015, who was the first member of the National Assembly, he said in a radio interview that he said, He criticized it as a self-contradictory judgment that obeyed. On the 24th of the same month, when former Prime Minister Han was detained in a Seoul detention center, he saw off with a fellow lawmaker and shouted, “Han Myung-suk is innocent.”
Reporters Ha Jun-ho and Kim Soo-min [email protected]
