‘Investigation of illegal withdrawal of Kim Hak’ was encouraged… Summons prosecutor Gyuwon Lee

On the 17th, prosecutors who are investigating the allegations of the illegal emergency ban on departure from the former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-e summoned prosecutor Lee Gyu-won, the suspected party, to confirm that they are under investigation. Following the summons investigation of the immigration head of the Ministry of Justice, Cha Gyu-geun, who approved the emergency withdrawal of the prosecutor at the time of the day before, the investigation is at the final stage.

Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office 3rd Division (Prosecutor Lee Jeong-seop) called this prosecutor, who was a member of the Past Photographic Investigation Group of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office at the time, and intensively investigated the background of the illegal withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim with a false emergency withdrawal request.

According to public interest reports, etc., the prosecutor sent an emergency withdrawal request and approval request each with a false case number in the early morning of March 23, 2019. After hearing the news from the Ministry of Justice’s Immigration Headquarters that about midnight the previous night, former Vice Minister Kim was going to board a plane bound for Bangkok, Thailand from Incheon International Airport.

The prosecutor said ▶In the request for emergency withdrawal, the’Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office 2013 Brother 658989′, which was already acquitted of former vice-minister Kim, (23rd 0:08) ▶’Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office 1, which did not exist in the request for approval. Ho’ case number (1:50 am to 4:21 am on the same day) is each falsely entered.

There are also suspicions that the prosecutor’s attempted to obtain posthumous approval for illegal emergency withdrawal was failed. At that time, it was reported that the anti-corruption department of the Great Sword asked the prosecutor of the Seoul East District District Prosecutor’s Office on the morning of the 23rd to “approve (my company number)” and was rejected. This is because, according to the Enforcement Decree of the Immigration Control Act, the’head of an investigative agency’ must request an emergency withdrawal in order to ban emergency departure.

The Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office investigated the immigration headquarter Cha Gyu-geun, who issued the post-approval request after executing the withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim with such a fake withdrawal request from Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won the day before.

In summary, JoongAng Ilbo coverage, Suwon District Black In June 2019, the anti-corruption department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office was sent from the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, Anyang Branch, through the prosecution’s internal network. It was also confirmed that the prosecutor Gyu-won Lee submitted a false withdrawal document containing a fake case number and internal company number in the emergency withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim.did.

The document was revised through an approval line such as’Chief Prosecutor→Department Manager’, and went through procedures such as reporting through the internal network of the prosecution. In accordance with the provisions specified in Article 2 of the’Guidelines for Handling Crimes and Misconduct by Public Prosecutors’,’In the case of discovering a crime or misconduct of a public prosecutor in the process of performing duties, you must report it to the head of the affiliated institution without delay.’

However, an official from the anti-corruption department at the time said, “At that time, Anyang District Office’s report on prosecutor Gyu-won Lee was an arbitrary report from the chief prosecutor, so it was treated as a’no report’.It is known that the statement was made to the effect of ”. This is the purpose of disregarding the existence of the report because it was posted by the chief prosecutor without going through a formal channel.

The investigation team is also known to have confirmed the circumstances in which the Supreme Prosecutors’ Anti-Corruption Department did not report this fact to Prosecutor General Moon Moo-il even after receiving a report that prosecutor Gyu-won Lee needed an investigation.

It is known that the anti-corruption department at the time also confirmed several times whether the Anyang branch reported the prosecution’s misconduct to other prosecutors’ departments or the Suwon High Prosecutors’ Office. It can be viewed as cracking down on the possibility of investigating other channels in order to’ignore’ the report.

The Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office said that related data such as call records containing such circumstances were also secured through seizure and search. We also summoned and investigated the anti-corruption approval lines, such as Moon Hong-sung, the current Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, who was the chief prosecutor of the anti-corruption division at the time, Kim Hyung-geun, the current deputy prosecutor of the Northern District Prosecutor’s Office, who was the head of the investigation command department, and Prosecutor B, the affiliated researcher.

The investigation team notified the summons during the Lunar New Year holidays to Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Lee Seong-yoon, who was the final chief of the anti-corruption and power department at the time, in connection with the suspicion of external pressure to suspend the investigation, but it is known that the investigation failed due to the refusal of the prosecutor.

Instead, Chief Prosecutor Lee told the media that day, “(At the time, the investigation conclusion report) It was reported to the anti-corruption department of the Great Sword,” and said, “A legitimate command was accomplished through the normal great sword reporting procedure.”

The public interest reporter in this case has pointed to Prosecutor General Lee Seong-yoon as the key party. The public interest reporter claimed that the prosecutor Lee Gyu-won, who was the’peak’ of the command line as the chief prosecutor’s anti-corruption and strong prosecutor at the time, used his authority to intercept the’prosecutor Lee Gyu-won investigation’ of the Anyang branch.

Reporters Jeong Jin-ho and Kim Soo-min [email protected]