Justice Minister Park Beom-gye visits the Ansan District Office of the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office in Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 9th to encourage the’Real Estate Speculation Investigation Team’ to answer questions from reporters.
On the 9th, Minister of Justice Park Beom-gye encouragingly visited the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, Ansan District Office, which formed the’Real Estate Speculation Investigation Team’ regarding the allegations of land dumping by employees of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH). Due to the adjustment of the investigative powers of the prosecutors, which has been implemented since this year, the prosecution cannot conduct an investigation directly at this stage, and can only command a warrant against the national police headquarters.
Beomgye Park evaluated “The police respond quickly and well”
Minister Park met with reporters on his way to the Ansan District Office on the same day, and pointed out that the prosecution did not have to directly investigate from the beginning of the investigation, he said, “In the past 1st and 2nd new city speculation, the prosecution made a lot of results. However, the police made a lot of results. We also carried out a seizure search today, and we are responding very quickly and well,” he said.
In this case, Minister Park is hoping for active cooperation with the police rather than investigating directly with the prosecution. Minister Park met with the staff of the Ansan branch office on the same day and said, “Under the investigation rights reform system that began this year, actively utilize the investigative know-how of the prosecution, a legal expert, to show an exemplary precedent for organic cooperation between prosecutors.” On the 5th, he ordered the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office to: ▶Quickly review the case of extension request by the police ▶Strictly handle the case of repatriation ▶Make sure to maintain public property ▶To thoroughly collect criminal proceeds, etc. It did not mention’thorough investigation’.
Minister Park briefly mentioned the possibility of a direct investigation by the prosecution. He said, “As it cannot be concluded that there is no corruption in public offices (one of the six major crimes), the prosecution will have to keep open and prepare for that part as well.”
Inside the prosecution, “Police investigation, may stay in a lower position”
However, within the prosecution, it seems unlikely that the prosecution will directly participate in the investigation. In order for the prosecution to proceed directly to the investigation, the investigation of the noodle version reveals that a public official of level 4 or higher or an officer of a public institution is suspected of being misconducted, so it must be handed over to the prosecution. An official of the prosecution said, “Would you like to hand over the case to the prosecution in a situation where the head of the National Investigation Headquarters Nam Goo-jun directly professes,’It is difficult to agree that the investigation should be entrusted to the prosecution.’ “I am concerned that the investigation will be terminated in the line of lower-level employees,” he said.
Nam Gu-jun, head of the National Police Agency’s National Investigation Headquarters (Guksu-bon), is admitted to Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun on the morning of the 8th at the Seoul Government Complex in Jongno-gu, Seoul. The National Police Agency’s National Investigation Headquarters oversees the investigation of alleged speculation in new towns by employees of Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH). News 1
Inside and outside the prosecution, criticism of Minister Park’s visit to the Ansan branch is also criticized for the show-style move. An executive of the prosecution said, “It seems that the Minister of Justice has stepped up because of the high public resentment against the LH case, but it is only a move that is not helpful in solving the case.” There is no meaning,” he pointed out.
Attorney Kim Jong-min, former head of the Suncheon branch, said, “This case is a case of success even if the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office establishes a special investigation headquarters and conducts a large-scale investigation. It is very wrong to talk to the Ansan branch, where the investigative manpower and ability are very limited.” If the police make the investigation of this case poorly, it could be a symbolic case that will show the shadow of the adjustment of the investigative power of the prosecution and the separation of investigation and prosecution,” he said.
On the afternoon of the 9th, at the Gwangmyeong Siheung Project Headquarters in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi-do, the anti-corruption economic crime investigation team of the Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency is moving the confiscated goods after a search for’LH executives and employees suspected speculation in a new city’. yunhap news
Anonymous prosecution investigator “Investigation is already ruined”
When the prosecution was excluded from the investigation of the LH case, an investigator of the prosecution also posted a statement on the blind of an anonymous bulletin board stating that “the investigation is already ruined”. The investigator said, “There is no need for a thorough investigation, and the approval line for this plan, the person who shared it, the creator of the detailed plan, the person who determined that Gwangmyeong is more suitable than Namyangju, the company’s messenger and email manager, and the communication between the official approval line and the person in charge for one year. First of all, it must be confiscated,” he said. “The prosecution has too many prosecutors and investigators who want to do this, but it’s a pity. The rule of law is falling,” he said.
Meanwhile, the anti-corruption economic crime investigation unit of the Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency confiscated and searched the homes of 13 employees who were suspicious of speculation, including the Gyeongnam Jinju LH headquarters, the LH Gwacheon Uiwang business headquarters in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, the LH Gwangmyeong Siheung business headquarters in Incheon, and the like.
Reporters Kang Kwang-woo and Ha Jun-ho [email protected]
