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According to the’Regular Property Changes for Senior Public Officials’ released by the Government Officials Ethics Committee on the 25th, it was revealed that the largest asset price among the Ministry of Justice and senior prosecutors was former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. The data released on that day were reported by public officials as of December 31, last year, so the property of former President Yoon, who resigned, was also disclosed. Former President Yoon reported 6.9978 million won, an increase of 225.9 million won from the previous year. The value of the residential-commercial apartment complex in Seocho-dong, Seoul, where the couple of former President Yoon lived, increased by 150 million won from the previous year, and the actual transaction price of forestry and warehouse land owned by a spouse in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi-do, etc. increased by 22 million won. Most of the assets were the deposits (53.45.47 million won) owned by the person and spouse, and of the total assets, all of them were the property of the spouse, except for the deposit of 220.3 million won to the former President Yun. In the prosecution, West District Prosecutors’ Office Noh Jeong-yeon (5,539.64 million won) and Lee Jung-hyun, head of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Public Investigation Department (37,2323.23 million won), had the second largest wealth after Yun. Prosecutor Roh increased by 18.195 million won from the previous year as deposits in the name of his spouse, himself, and children increased. Prosecutor General Cho Nam-gwan (deputy chief prosecutor) reported 1,631.15 million won, and Seoul Central District Prosecutor General Lee Seong-yoon reported 11.95.27 million won. Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu (5,6696 million won) was classified as a high-ranking public official with personnel changes from December to January last year, and his property was disclosed in the official gazette on the 19th. In the Ministry of Justice, Shin Yong-do, Chairman of the Korea Legal Protection and Welfare Corporation (4.21.48 million won), Dong-hoon Han, a research fellow at the Legal Affairs Training Institute (37.8591 million won), Woo-jeong Shim (3,49286 million won), head of the Planning and Coordination Office, Kang Seong-guk (3.47 billion won) Followed by the vice minister. The average fortune of the Ministry of Justice and senior prosecution officers was 2,041.29 million won. There were 144 persons subject to disclosure by the court, with an average of 3,764.95 million won. Among the high-ranking officials in the court, Kang Young-soo, the chief judge of the Incheon District Court (49.8 billion won), had the most wealth. Seoul High Court Judge Kang Seung-joon reported 12.33 billion won, and Supreme Justice Ahn Chul-sang reported 6,4634 million won. Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo reported 11.78.76 million won, a decrease of 22.95 million won from the previous year. By Bae Bae-hyun, staff reporter