Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Lee Seong-yoon (right), who attended the National District Prosecutors’ Office and the Prosecutors’ Office in charge of elections, is heading to the cafeteria for lunch with Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul on February 10 last year. yunhap news
Suwon District Prosecutor, who is investigating the alleged illegal withdrawal of Kim Hak’s former vice-minister, was troubled over a request for an arrest warrant against Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Lee Seong-yoon, who refused to respond to a summons request as a suspect. This is because Article 25 of the Act on the Operation and Installation of High-Level Public Officials Crime Investigation Offices (Airport Offices), which was launched a month ago, stipulates that investigative agencies such as the prosecution must transfer crimes against incumbent prosecutors to the airlift.
Suwon District Gumdo struggles over a claim for arrest warrant
According to the JoongAng Ilbo’s coverage on the 25th, Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office 3rd Division (Director Jeong-seop Lee) believes that the request for an arrest warrant against Lee may serve as the basis for the request for relocation of the case.
Article 25, Paragraph 2 of the Ministry of Public Investigation Act stipulates that’if another investigating agency finds a crime of a high-ranking public official by a prosecutor, the head of the investigating agency must transfer the case to the investigating agency’ It is not clear when the case should be transferred to the airlift due to the phrase’when the charges were discovered’. Even inside the prosecution, various interpretations such as’the point of prosecution’ and’the point of discovery of criminal clues’ come out.
Airborne Minister Kim Jin-wook also maintains the principled position that “the opinions of each institution are different on the recognition of an incident, and mutual coordination is necessary.” Even if the case is relocated without being selected for the prosecutor of the air defense department, it is not in a situation where the investigation can be carried out immediately.
Kim Jin-wook, head of the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Department (KPA), is giving a keynote speech on the theme of’The Democratic Republic and the Rule of the Law’ at the Kwanhoon Forum held at the Press Center in Jung-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 25th. News 1
The problem is the passport. In the case of a request for an arrest warrant for this district prosecutor, the passport may push forward the airlift.
Prosecutor Lee, a junior at Kyunghee University Law School of President Moon Jae-in, took up three positions in the so-called’Prosecutor’s Big 4’after the inauguration of the current government. He has been criticized for faithfully playing the role of anti-corruption and anti-corruption, the prosecutor’s office of the Ministry of Justice, and the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. In a passport, that’s the person who needs to be protected. Even through an unreasonable spouse, it is possible to calculate that only the arrest of this district prosecutor will be prevented.
On the night of March 22, 2019, former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui is leaving the airport after being banned from leaving the country while trying to board a plane bound for Thailand at Incheon Airport. Recently, there has been a public official report that this process is illegal withdrawal due to manipulation of documents and records by the Ministry of Justice and the prosecution, and the prosecution has initiated an investigation. JTBC capture
The investigation team reported that the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, who was trying to investigate the case of “forgery of withdrawal documents,” by Prosecutor Gyu-won Lee of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Past Photographic Investigation Group in June 2019, when Lee served as the chief prosecutor’s office as chief prosecutor’s anti-corruption and strong prosecutor. It is said that he applied the charges and turned into a suspect. Regarding the suspicion of external pressure, an investigation into the Anyang branch office and the anti-corruption and power department officials at the time was completed.
With only the summons investigation left at the district prosecutor’s office, the investigation team sent a request for attendance to the district prosecutor’s office twice last week and early this week, but did not respond to the summons until this day. Arrest warrants are usually requested even if they fail to attend without a legitimate reason, unlike arrest warrants that require the destruction of evidence or fear of escape, but the investigation team is not ready to come forward.
It is also believed that the prosecutor’s office refused to respond to the summons of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, with the prosecutor’s office in mind. Some of the prosecutors who have already been investigated in this case have also mentioned that it is a matter to be transferred to the airlift.
Regarding this, one prosecution officer said, “It will be a burden for the investigative team that there may be a useless dispute next time due to the issue of repatriation to the air defense department. The chief prosecutor is bouncing the guts after knowing this situation of the investigation team.” Another prosecutor’s executive said, “The airlift should not be abused as bulletproof to cover the corruption of pro-government prosecutors.”
Reporters Jung Yoojin and Kim Soomin [email protected]
