On July 23, last year, firefighters are working on a search in Choryang 1st Underpass in Dong-gu, Busan, where three people died. yunhap news
On the 10th, a working-level official was arrested on the 10th in connection with the heavy rain disaster in Choryang Underground Road in Dong-gu, Busan, where three people died in heavy rain in July of last year. This is the first case in which a public official from the working department was arrested in a disaster accident.
Criminal 1 of the Busan District Court, Deputy Judge Cho Hyun-cheol, issued an arrest warrant for the Dong-gu Office official A, who requested by the Busan District Prosecutor’s Office, on the grounds that’there is fear of destruction of evidence’.
The other one was dismissed because of the fact that all the evidence was already secured. It was also considered that there is a considerable causal relationship between business negligence and results.
The prosecution’s request for an arrest warrant drew attention in that it placed direct responsibility for the accident from the official in charge of the disaster. In the meantime, in relation to disaster accidents, the level of ordering national compensation has been limited to local governments. This is the first time that a public official from the working-level department has been arrested in connection with a natural disaster that has caused personal injury. The charges they received were work-related negligence, work-related negligence, false official document writing and offenses.
Earlier, during the record torrential rain in Busan at 9:30 pm on July 23, last year, the Choryang underground roadway was submerged and six vehicles passing through it were trapped, killing three people and injuring four others.
Through an investigation, the police sent three public officials to the prosecution, including the head of the Dong-gu deputy district and the two who had been requested for a warrant this time, on charges of negligence in managing the underground roadway. In addition, two Dong-gu office officials and one Busan city official who wrote the minutes of the meeting to judge the situation that they did not actually do during a heavy rain were charged with abandonment of work regarding the acting representative of Busan Mayor Byeon Seong-wan, who did not return to the city hall after having a meeting outside. Each was handed over to the prosecution as a prosecution opinion.
The prosecution plans to determine the level of punishment by conducting reinforcement investigations on the remaining six other than the two public officials who requested the warrant.
Busan= Kwon Kyung-hoon reporter [email protected]
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