Lee Seong-yoon, Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. Central photo
On the night of the 5th, the same day that former prosecutor general Yoon Seok-yeol’s resignation was accepted, a broadcaster’s’exclusive’ report was released, stating that “President Yoon’s wife, Kim Gun-hee, will be summoned to the prosecution soon.” However, in about two hours, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office completely denied the contents of the report, saying, “It is completely different from the facts.” Inside and outside the prosecutor’s office, there was a back-word saying, “After Prosecutor General Lee Seong-yoon, the prosecution of the central district prosecutor’s office, resigns, he immediately pursues the investigation of his wife, Kim Gun-hee,” he said.
檢 “We haven’t discussed the schedule for summoning Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. President”
This case is a suspicion related to the sponsorship and sponsorship of Covana Contents, an exhibition planner of Kim Gun-hee, which has been independently investigated by the Central District Prosecutor’s Office since October last year without the command of the Great Swordsman. This is because the former Minister of Justice Choo Mi-ae exercised the authority to command the investigation, saying,’Keep your hands off the prosecutor’s office’ on allegations related to Yoon himself, his family, and close associates.
The reported’Covana Contents’ suspicion was allocated to the second part of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office of Anti-Corruption Investigation (director Jeong Yong-hwan), a former special woman who was said to be excellent in investigative power. However, despite the fact that about five months have passed since the dividend has passed, there is no progress in the prosecution. From the time of the dividend, there was also a lot of talk about the infighting with Chief Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon, as the Prosecutor Chung refused to’can’t take over’.
On the morning of the morning of the 7th, former prosecutor general Yoon Seok-yeol is returning to his home after visiting the Cobana Contents office, an exhibition planning company operated by his wife located in a shopping district under his home. News 1
The suspicion is that the sponsorship of the exhibition planned by Kim has surged from 4 to 16, just before Yoon was nominated for President Yoon’s presidential candidate. Citizens’ Actions to Raise Justice of Judicial Justice of Civic Organizations Citizens’ Actions accused President Yoon and his wife Kim of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office in September last year, claiming that sponsors have been sponsoring for the convenience of the investigation process.
Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon-Investigation Team’Lee Gyeon-seol’ also Sol Sol
In November of last year, after the entire court for seizure and search for the contents of Covana contents as well as the sponsors was dismissed by the court, there was little progress in the investigation. Some point out that it exposed’disagreements’ between the investigation team. Isn’t it that the prosecutor’s office started playing in the media?
In fact, an official from the legal profession who is bright in the situation said, “I know that all the investigation teams have been greatly embarrassed after the report because I have never discussed the summoning schedule itself, let alone the plan for summoning Mr. Kim.”
Inside the prosecution, prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon ordered an active investigation, including the seizure and search of President Yoon’s home after the warrant was dismissed, but there was a steady stream of stories that it was blocked by the opposition of the manager. Multiple prosecutors said, “There are many stories that the chief prosecutor is preventing the district prosecutor from ordering an unreasonable investigation.”
Prosecutor Lee is regarded as a representative pro-government prosecutor who has been criticized for crushing the investigation of’living power’ and pushing the government’s desired investigation unreasonably. In particular, on the day that Minister Chu ruled out Yoon’s duties in December last year as the “Chu-Yun conflict” reached its limit, the central district prosecutor’s office indicted Yun’s mother-in-law even raised suspicion that the Ministry of Justice was a “postmaster”.
Currently, Prosecutor General Lee is also one of the most likely candidates for the post of the next prosecutor-general, who became vacant due to Yoon’s resignation. Prosecutor Lee, who was a graduate of Kyunghee University law school like President Moon Jae-in, was promoted to the prosecutor’s office in the current government, and took on key positions in succession, including chief of the criminal prosecutor’s office, head of the anti-corruption and power department, and head of the prosecutor’s office at the Ministry of Justice.
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