Former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook (middle), who was sentenced to two years in prison in the Supreme Court for illegal political fund transfer, met with supporters right before he was imprisoned in front of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang-si, Gyeonggi-do, and wept in tears. yunhap news
The incumbent prosecutor, who participated in the investigation team for the’Illegal Political Funding Case of Former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook’, revealed the story he had left to the junior prosecutor who was entrusted with the investigation of inmates at the time, saying’I’m sorry’. Former Prime Minister Han’s investigation team seems to have criticized Justice Minister Park Beom-gye, who commanded the investigation, taking into account the fairness of the process of concluding the suspicion of an alleged perjury teacher.
On the 18th, according to the legal profession, Yang Seok-jo (48th, 29th Judicial Research and Training Institute), Daejeon High Prosecutor’s Office, posted an article titled’Remembrance of Inmate Investigation and Penitentiary Records’ on the prosecution’s internal network (Eprus). Both prosecutors introduced an experience in which an inmate (indicted for detention for a fraud case) he had been investigating in the past made a false claim that’the prosecutor in charge had confided or threatened to reveal the bribery case of the head of the local government’. Later, he wrote, “After that, I kept away from the inmates.”
A few years later, the two prosecutors were in charge of investigating the case of the former prime minister, and continued writing, saying that they were in a similar situation. Prosecutor Yang said, “Before (a money donor in the case of a former prime minister) there were rumors in the detention center that he was changing his words, and the investigation team ignored the rumors saying,’There is such a lot of objective evidence, is it possible?'” “By the way (in court), they really changed their words, and the investigation team was inevitable to investigate the inmates, the source of the rumors,” he explained. “At a meeting of the investigation team presiding over the manager, the manager said,’Who wants to investigate the inmate,’ but the remaining two were prosecutors. I couldn’t do that.”
Prosecutor Yang expressed his apology, saying, “So, Prosecutor Malseok was in charge of the investigation (inmate), and 10 years later, he has been struggling until now.” “I am so sorry and sorry.” He added, “At the time, there was a schedule for several hours of cross-examination by the best criminal lawyers, and I would like to tell you that a leading media company was watching and the court situation was being broadcast in real time.”
Finally, both prosecutors concluded, saying, “It is very regrettable that the reality that this can happen to all prosecutors.” He expressed his regret about the reality of being questioned about fairness as a result of the investigation by changing the words of the subject of the investigation or raising suspicion without grounds, along with a feeling of sorry for the junior prosecutor.
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