“Give me a gold day” “Great orders” Kim Hak’s withdrawal, Park Sang-geun and Lee Jong-geun involvement

In the 106-page public interest report obtained by this magazine, on March 23, 2019, former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui was urgently banned from leaving the country, and on March 24, the Ministry of Justice’s immigration headquarters staff worked well at the Kakao Talk group chat room (dan chat room). There was also a vivid message of the conversation about self-admiring and discussing countermeasures with the superiors at the time. The immigration headquarters screening and private chat room conversations were secured as digital forensic evidence in the process of the Ministry of Justice’s self-inspection of the leak of withdrawal information to former Vice Minister Kim Hak’s that year, and the prosecution’s investigation afterwards.

The problem is that, among these, the circumstances that appear to have involved Justice Minister Park Sang-sang and the Minister’s Policy Adviser were included. Former Minister Park is also at the top of the 10 survey targets listed in the public interest report.

Employees said the day after withdrawal“The minister seems to be giving the gold ilbong (for preventing Kim Hak from leaving Korea)He said he would commend Park for blocking former Vice Minister Kim from leaving the country. therefore “A direct contact came from the Minister’s Office, and the Incheon Airport Information Management Division informed me that the (withdrawal) regulation time, regulation inquiry, etc. are being responded to by the Seoul Information Center.There was also an article showing that the Minister’s Office was responding.

At 0:10 am on the day, after blocking Kim Hak’s former Vice Minister Kim Hak’s departure from Incheon Airport, 12 hours later, 12 hours after media controversy, a policy advisor personally visited the immigration headquarters and “intervened” was discovered. Employees “The Policy Advisor (syncopation) I want you to know how to deal with it, but I’m afraid the prosecution will be harmed. They might have their own problems. I instruct you very much” “I came and ordered the judges all morning”He also wrote.

This is a dialogue interpreted as saying that even the ministerial policy adviser went down to the immigration headquarters to give orders, conscious of the illegal controversy. Prosecutor Lee Jong-geun, the current chief of the criminal prosecutor’s office, is the former prosecutor and the minister’s policy adviser who is close to the spokesperson.

Even now, the investigation of illegal withdrawal and suspicion of inspections by former Vice Minister Kim is under the command of Criminal Chief Lee Jong-geun. The case in which the power of the people complained to the Ministry of Justice on charges of unauthorized inquiries about the departure information of former Vice Minister Kim, etc. was assigned to the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, Anyang District Criminal Division 3 (Director Je-Sung Kim), because Lee is the commanding and general manager.
Employees monitored media reports from the morning of the emergency withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim, “Reporter = scary guys” “I guess it wasn’t a joke on the phone to the person in charge. There was an article in too much detail,” he wrote, “I have nothing to tell you, but I repeated it.” “There’s no way to respond, saying, “It seems like you have to discuss with the spokesperson and the head of the headquarters in order to return to the spokesperson room.”I wrote.

From this afternoon, when positive reports about Kim Hak’s withdrawal came out, the atmosphere of the chat room also reversed. ‘Forbidden departure… Why did Hak-ui Kim try to leave for Thailand in the middle of the night?’ (The Kyunghyang Shinmun),’Hak-ei Kim’s soon re-investigation… While spreading articles such as’Illegal Departure Prohibition’ (MBC),Naver is crazy. Hahaha“It has changed into an atmosphere of self-celebration.

Immediately after the 9pm broadcast news report, they cheered for the good public opinion about what they did, saying, “Laughs, as if the minister will give you this day,” “Fast response!!”
therefore “It’s a controversy over illegality, and if I missed it, the chatter would be cool.” If we really went out, we would almost overturn it… It seems like it’s been hot since the establishment of immigration, but I’m glad that it’s a compliment. The same article followed.


An employee said, “It’s illegal and it’s better to suffer from procedures and things like that. “It’s really good that I couldn’t go out,” and other employees wrote, “It’s natural, I’m going to be a real harpoon” and “Let’s hold on to it!”

However, as if conscious of the problem, he also posed’regulation’ from time to time. “Regarding KakaoTalk chat room, please refrain from recording~”, “Please delete”, “Do not write here”Was mentioned.

This was because the employees were well aware that the emergency ban on departure from former Vice Minister Kim was illegal.

At 0:08 on March 23, when the request for an emergency ban on departure under the name of Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won, a member of the Great Examination Fact Investigation Team, was received, the immigration officer at the time said “It’s not the central district. There are neither western food nor official seals (nothing). The manager also saw and was worriedI left a message called KakaoTalk.

At 8:15 am, 8 hours after the withdrawal, “(Cha Gyu-geun) the Immigration Headquarters and (Ahn Mo) are talking about whether to approve the emergency departure ban afterwards. The fact-finding team is not the prosecution organization, but the problem is being reviewed.” “You are also talking about whether the subject of emergency (withdrawal) should be the suspect.“It was a discussion.

The prosecutor sent the second official request for approval from the Ministry of Justice by fax to the Ministry of Justice’s complaint office, and when an error occurred, he sent a photo file to the employee’s mobile phone. In response, the employee said, “The approval request was originally sent to the Ministry of Justice! The request was artificial!” He said that he knew the withdrawal request itself was false.

In the prosecution’s investigation in May of the same year, the employee said, “(This prosecutor’s withdrawal request form) was not in the form of a normal emergency ban on departure request form. The case number is written in the central district prosecutor’s office. It looked like it was a member of the Dongbu District Prosecutor’s Office, so it was totally strange and it was different from what I normally saw.

In the end, instead of the 2013 Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office number that was written in the emergency departure ban request, he changed the entry and exit computer record with the case number “East District Prosecutor’s Office 2019 Internal Affairs No. 1” that this prosecutor later wrote in the approval request. It was revised after reviewing the illegality inside, but this case number also did not exist.

Reporters Kim Soo-min and Jung Yu-jin [email protected]