material photo” alt=”Former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui (left) and former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook. Former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui (left) and former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook. <한겨레> Material photo
Both figures were summoned by the politicians. Former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook was convicted by the Supreme Court for receiving money from a construction contractor and Kim Hak-eui, who was caught trying to flee after a re-investigation of special rape charges began. The case of former Vice Minister Kim was a press conference for the power of the people following the report of a public informant, and the case of Myung-Sook Han came to the surface again under the investigation and command of former Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae, a former politician who received a complaint from a fellow inmate of a construction company. According to the political interests of each camp, the suspicion of the incident struck Seocho-dong. The prosecution responded immediately, but the way they responded was markedly different. A large-scale special investigation team (five prosecutors) was organized under the direction of former prosecutor general Yoon Seok-yul to the suspicion of’Kim Hak’s illegal departure from the country’. The investigation was conducted in two ways to reveal whether there was any illegal activity in the process of banning departure and whether there was external pressure from the superiors during the investigation at the time of the incident. The investigation of the immigration headquarter of the Ministry of Justice Cha Gyu-geun and the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Lee Seong-yoon, with the frame of’pro-government’ covered, were relayed through the media every minute. Passports and supporters rebelled, saying it was a dusty investigation aimed at the’upper line’. On the other hand, the suspicion of’Han Myung-sook mother harm perjury teacher’ was a continuation of controversy over the investigation (inspection). In the case of a complaint that the prosecutor in charge forced the inmate to testify against the former Prime Minister at a trial, Jeon Yoon assigned the prosecutor’s disciplinary prescription to the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office on the grounds that the statute had expired. The conflict between the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutors’ Office was linked to the investigation and command of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of Direct Investigation by Choo, which was also included as a reason for the disciplinary action of former President Yun. In recent years, the prosecution policy researcher Lim Eun-jeong, who expressed his willingness to investigate the case, was virtually excluded from the investigation, causing controversy. As the statute of limitations was imminent, even Minister of Justice Park Bum-gye ordered a reconsideration, but the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office was unprosected for’insufficient evidence’ at the end of an expansion meeting of the chief prosecutor and the chief of the prosecutor. The prosecution’s criticism of’covering my family’ and opinions of the unreasonable’saving of Han Myung-suk’ of the passport clashed. The nature of the case was volatilized due to the symbolism of the person (case) and the conflict between the Ministry of Justice and the prosecution. If the names of Hak-ei Kim and Myung-sook Han are deleted, the key is the prohibition of illegal departure and the mother-in-law perjury teacher. Both cases have in common that harm occurred in the process of an unreasonable investigation by the prosecution. Investigation officials who have chosen illegal acts that deviate from laws and procedures to secure recruits of suspects in the case, and’illegal investigation practices’, which are used as informants, provide various conveniences to inmates to draw out the convictions of the accused are all political issues. It was an invisible problem. If the prosecutor’s’illegal proceedings’ to bring former Vice Minister Kim to court are the subject of extensive investigation, the prosecutor’s’illegal investigation practices’ to convict former Prime Minister Han should have been thoroughly investigated (investigated). The problem is the prosecution’s’investigation (prosecution) universalism’. The prosecutors’ profiles have the modifier’○○ Incident Prosecutor’, and the number of people arrested (or prosecuted) at the time and what kind of sentences they received are followed as if by performance. Despite the difficult case, the prosecution’s emphasis on the’human rights investigation’ in front of the saga that the prosecution was eventually succeeded by mobilizing all kinds of methods seemed to have no place. There is also skepticism within the prosecution that no matter how much emphasis is placed on human rights investigations, “the investigation practices will not change easily.” There is also a question, “What kind of prosecutor is the prosecutor who cannot investigate?” “What will the prosecutor be evaluated by other than investigation (prosecution)?” There is also a complaining that the evaluation is completely different depending on the political landscape even though the crime was proved with clear evidence by comparing the family investigation of the former President Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak with the former Minister Cho Kuk. The accident was based on the’prosecutor’s spirit’ that if you investigate, you must prosecute. Prosecutor General Cho Nam-gwan (Deputy Chief of the Great Swordsman) announced new investigation guidelines on the 24th, saying that the prosecution should be transformed into a circle. He stressed that the practice of forcefully investigating arrests in order to obtain an arrest warrant or to receive a confession from a suspect must cease. Investigation of a separate crime discovered during a direct investigation requires the approval of the Prosecutor General, and it is said that it will consider ways to dismiss the possibility of destroying evidence or fleeing, or prosecuting non-felony crimes without custody. The atmosphere is contrary to the days of the former prosecutor general, who emphasized the’live power investigation’ and turned the prosecution into a political battlefield through an unreasonable separate investigation. After the adjustment of the prosecutor’s right to investigate, the establishment of a serious criminal investigation office is discussed, and the’prosecutor’s spring’ will not come if the atmosphere of all-round investigation does not change while the crisis of the prosecution’s existence is discussed.
By Ok Ki-won, staff reporter