On the morning of the morning of the 12th, Kim Jin-wook, head of the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation office, is giving a briefing on the re-immigration of the prosecution at the Gwacheon government office in Gyeonggi Province. yunhap news
The high-ranking public officials criminal investigation office (public prosecutors’ office) decided to hand over the suspicion of the illegal departure ban (illegal withdrawal) of Kim Hak-eui from the former vice minister of the Ministry of Justice to the prosecution again. The Ministry of Public Affairs actively reviewed the investigation, but decided to relocate, fearing that if the investigation was delayed due to a lack of manpower, it would be criticized for “crushing the case”.
The prosecution’s investigation is expected to speed up. Since prosecutor Lee Gyu-won, a key suspect, has already been subpoenaed, the prosecution is expected to request an arrest warrant against the prosecutor. The investigation of the summons of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Lee Seong-yoon, who has been suspicious of external pressure in the investigation, is also expected to be inevitable.
“It is not a condition to focus on the investigation”
On the 3rd, Suwon District Prosecutors transferred cases related to incumbent prosecutors, such as Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon and Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won, who had been dispatched to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s Past Photographic Investigation Group, to the air defense department in accordance with the Airlift Act. The airborne agency, which took over the case, reviewed the records and struggled with the subject of the investigation, including △direct investigation of the airborne department, △redirection to the prosecution, △transfer to the national investigation headquarters of the National Police Agency.
In order to prevent the prosecution from wrapping up my family, the incumbent prosecutor prioritized the investigation in accordance with the purpose of the law prescribed by the airlift, but eventually gave up due to the’realism’. Airborne Minister Kim Jin-wook explained, “Because the selection of prosecutors and investigators can take 3 or 4 weeks or more, we could not ignore the fact that there is no realistic condition to devote ourselves to the investigation.”
The Ministry of Public Affairs also considered that if an investigation was conducted in such a situation, unnecessary controversy over fairness could arise. Chief Kim said, “I wanted to avoid controversy such as crushing and watching over during the period when the investigation could not be conducted because the air prosecutors were not formed,” he said. In addition, the fact that this case is not a case of recognition of the airlift, and that it may appear in the form of receiving the request for relocation of the airlifter from Prosecutor General Lee Seong-yoon seems to have influenced the prosecution’s decision to relocate.
Lee Gyu-won and Lee Seong-yoon’s investigations seem to be empowering
The prosecution, who re-investigate after twists and turns, is expected to speed up the investigation of prosecutor Lee Gyu-won first. The Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office is likely to sooner or later request an arrest warrant for the prosecutor Lee Gyu-won in connection with the allegation of illegally urgent withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim by creating a fake internal internal number. It is known that the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office has already collected a significant amount of evidence to substantiate the charges for this test. The prosecution has already requested an arrest warrant against Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigner Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice.
It is also a point of watching whether or not to investigate the summons of the District Prosecutor’s Office Lee Seong-yoon. In June 2019, he was accused of exerting Susamuma external pressure to the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, which captured the illegality of the withdrawal measure of Kim’s withdrawal. The investigation team is reviewing a written investigation, but opinions that a direct investigation is necessary because the Prosecutor’s Officer Lee requested a transfer to the airlift and tried to evade the prosecution’s investigation.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, who is looking into whether the prosecutor is illegal in the course of an investigation into the suspicion of sexual entertainment of former Vice Minister Kim, plans to relocate to the airlift once it detects the criminal charges of Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won. Just as the Ministry of Public Affairs relocated the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office could also be transferred to the Public Prosecutors’ Office and then returned to the prosecution to continue the investigation.
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