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| ▲ Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreign Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, who is suspicious of taking “Illegal Departure Prohibition Measures” against former Vice Minister Kim Hak-eui, questioned by reporters before entering the Suwon District Law Office for attendance before arrest on the 5th. Are receiving. 2021.3.5 | |
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(Suwon = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Jong-ho and Kang Young-hoon = The arrest warrant of Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreign Policy Headquarters, was dismissed at the court on the 6th, accused of illegally banning the departure of Kim Hak-eui from the former Vice Minister of Justice.
Due to the dismissal of the arrest warrant, the prosecution’s investigation into the illegal withdrawal case of Kim Hak, which was accelerating the search for the confiscation to the summons of the relevant person, was put on hold.
The Suwon District Law Court Justice Oh Dae-seok, who is in charge of warrants, conducted an interrogation of the suspect before arrest (substantial warrant examination) for five days before arrest against the head of the car headquartered under suspicion of obstructing the exercise of the right of abuse of authority, writing and exercising false official documents, and leaving the office. It is difficult to admit the necessity,” he dismissed the warrant.
Judge Oh said, “Considering the necessity of complying with strict due process, the matter is not light, but it is difficult to judge that there is a concern about destruction of evidence or fear of escape in light of the evidence collected during the investigation process and the attitude of the suspect in the investigation.” Revealed.
Director Cha is charged with receiving reports of personal information inquiries including Kim’s name, date of birth, immigration control information, etc., from the morning of March 19, 2019 to the afternoon of the 22nd of the same month, 177 times from the morning of March 19, 2019 to the afternoon of the 22nd of the same month, Are receiving.
In addition, he is also charged with approving the withdrawal request on the morning of the 23rd, a day later, despite knowing the circumstances that the prosecutor of the Past Photographic Investigation Group at the time of the Great Prosecutor’s Office at the time was illegally taking an emergency withdrawal action against former Vice Minister Kim.
The prosecution said that the charges were proved after calling the head of the headquarters of Cha as a suspect three times last month, and filed a full-fledged arrest warrant on the 2nd.
However, as the court dismissed the arrest warrant, the prosecution’s investigation that was accelerating was put to a standstill.
However, as the reason for the court’s dismissal of the warrant is not that there is room for contention over the criminal charges, it is expected to choose the procedure of completing the investigation and handing over the head of the second headquarters to trial rather than reclaiming the warrant.
It is also of interest that the case of incumbent prosecutors, such as Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Lee Seong-yoon, who was relocated to the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation office (public prosecutors’ office), will be relocated to the prosecution (Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office).
On the 3rd, the prosecution transferred the cases of incumbent prosecutors, including Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office Lee Seong-yoon, who was suspicious of outside investigation, and Lee, who was suspected of taking illegal emergency withdrawal measures, to the airlift.
Article 25, Paragraph 2 of the Airlifting Service Act stipulates that’if any investigative agency other than the airlifting agency finds a crime of a high-ranking public official by the prosecutor, the case will be transferred to the airlifting agency.
The Minister of Public Affairs Kim Jin-wook has decided until next week whether the Ministry of Public Affairs will conduct an investigation or relocate to the prosecution.
In addition, discussions on whether to hold the Prosecutors’ Investigation Deliberation Committee, which has requested a convocation, is expected to gain momentum.
The Prosecutors’ Investigation Deliberation Committee is a system to deliberate on the investigation process of cases in which national suspicion has been raised and to evaluate the legality of the results. It consists of 15 members selected by random lottery out of 150 experts from various fields.
Meanwhile, before attending the warrant deliberation on the previous day, the head of the headquarters asked reporters whether the ban on departure for Kim was illegal or not, “it is not illegal. Former Vice Minister Kim was attempting to escape abroad by secretly using automatic immigration late at night.” “I want to ask the people if it is right to leave the immigration headquarters in charge of border control and leave them to flee abroad without taking any action,” he replied.
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