Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae responds to inquiries from lawmakers at the National Assembly Legislative Judicial Committee on the 8th. Reporter Oh Dae-geun
Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae said that the prosecution formed a special investigation team in connection with the alleged illegal departure (withdrawal) of Kim Hak-ei. I can’t erase the feeling,” he said.
Minister Chu said in a social network service (SNS) on the 16th, “The prosecutor is an investigative agency that can request withdrawal to a single administrative agency, and it is not inappropriate even if the minister has made a withdrawal action based on the request of an investigative agency that can be done ex officio. “He said. Minister Chu pointed out, “Even if it is a matter of document format that the prosecutor’s officer was omitted in the request for withdrawal from the prosecutor, the prosecutor’s head of the prosecution did not cancel the withdrawal request, rather than taking this issue into account at the time, but rather proceeded the investigation by requesting an extension of the withdrawal.” did. He argued, “To question that one prosecutor’s request for withdrawal while remaining silent about the prosecutor’s own investigation and requesting an extension of the withdrawal is to postpone the responsibility of the prosecutor and the head of the prosecutor.”
Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office recently formed an investigation team consisting of five prosecutors when suspicion of illegal withdrawal from former Vice Minister Kim spread. Minister Chu said, “I can’t get rid of the feeling of trying to do a typical’theatrical investigation’ that puts out the inevitability of an investigation, which is a case with great illegality and organizational misconduct, after catching a straw and driving public opinion through the media first.” Emphasized. He said, “The prosecution is still unable to self-control the power of investigation and is a behavior against the people’s desire for reform,” he said. “I hope that the prosecution, who promised’the people’s prosecution’, will not disappoint the people anymore with’wrap the family’ at the beginning of the new year.” Said.
Minister Chu said, “In 2013, there was a case where Hwang Gyo-an banned a reference person from leaving the country without a case number without a case number,” he said.
The Ministry of Justice also issued a statement on the suspicion of illegal withdrawal from former Vice Minister Kim before posting on SNS on the same day and refuted that “it was only a secondary controversy and the ban on departure was a legitimate measure.”
Former Vice Minister Kim, who was suspicious of sexual entertainment and bribery, was initially acquitted twice during the prosecution’s investigation, but after a re-investigation, he was sentenced to two years and six months in prison at the second trial in October last year and was imprisoned in court. Former Vice Minister Kim attempted to depart from Bangkok, Thailand on March 23, 2019, when public opinion rose for reinvestigation.
no problem reporter [email protected]
News edited by Hankook Ilbo can also be viewed on Naver
