L-City Investigation Prosecutors and Command Department Airborne Prosecutors’ Office accused…

“The procrastination investigation and the caregiving investigation took place. If this is done, the truth of the L-City preferential corruption situation will not be clarified.”

On the 18th, Mi-sook Yang, Secretary General of the Busan Participation Solidarity, stood in front of the main gate of the Busan District Prosecutors’ Office (Busan District Prosecutors’ Office), saying, “The L-City investigation was only an unfinished investigation.” Next to him was the’L-City business corruption investigation prosecutor’s office, and the prosecution of the Airborne Department’. Looking at the controversy over the recent L City (LCT)’preferential sale list’, he criticized the results of the investigation, saying, “How should ordinary citizens accept that former prosecutors, lawyers, and politicians live in L City?”

“L-City’s preferential corruption, we must clarify the truth”

On this day, the Busan Regional Reform Headquarters and the Busan Participation Solidarity announced that they would prosecute prosecutors and commanders who investigated the Haeundae L-City case in search of the Busan District Prosecutor’s Office on charges of abuse of authority under the criminal law (Article 132) and abandonment of work (Article 122).

The targets of the charges are about 10 related prosecutors, including Lim Gwan-hyuk (now Gwangju High Prosecutors’ Office), former head of the Busan District Prosecutor’s Office, and former Busan District Prosecutors’ Second Deputy Prosecutor, Yoon Dae-jin (currently vice president of the Judicial Research and Training Institute) who investigated the L City case in 2017. At the time, the prosecutor of the Busan District Prosecutor’s Office and the head of the ‘Sungmyeong Buddha’ in charge of the case and the deputy prosecutors were also identified as accused.

It is expected that the complaint will be submitted by mail and will be received on the 19th, the next day.

In the 28-page accusation, “The charges of Lee Young-bok, who admitted to the prosecution, were convicted in the Supreme Court, but the prosecution did not properly investigate the contractors for alleged preferential sale of 43”. It is alleged that the prosecution has relied solely on the statements of contractors in the last civil society accusation case to unprodict 41 people.

Lee Young-bok, the real owner of the L-City corruption case, signed a pre-sale contract with 43 people in 2015, and suspicion of preferential lobbying was raised. Subsequently, the Busan Participation Solidarity and others filed a complaint in 2017 saying, “Investigate and punish preferential sellers.” Only in October last year, just before the statute of prosecution expired, the prosecution sent a notice of disposition of 41 non-prosecution to these groups. The names of the 41 people were written as’Name Buddha’ and were closed. It was a decision after three years of filing the accusation.

Only two people were fined for this accusation. The Busan District Law fined 10 million won for two people, including Lee Young-bok’s son and the president of a sales agency, who were charged with violating the housing law such as’Illegal Sales’. The judge admitted that it was true that they were provided with housing in an unjust way.

However, 41 people who were suspected of preferential treatment were actually granted indulgences. This is because the expiration of the statute of limitations has made it impossible to punish. According to the Prosecutors’ Prosecutors’ Office Regulations, the Commissioner of the Higher Prosecutors’ Office is required to dismiss the appeal after the statute expires. Even if the prosecution is filed after the statute of prosecution has expired, the court must make an appeal.

Prior to filing the complaint, the two organizations that visited the Busan District Prosecutors said, “In the L-City corruption project, which was a hotbed of corruption and preferential treatment, the prosecution, police, auditor request for audit of the auditor, and administrative litigation were carried out in various response activities. However, we could not dig into the fundamental problem.” There was no severe punishment to prevent the recurrence of such an irregularity case,” he said.

These groups insisted that the airborne ministry should clarify this. Attorney Sang-gyu Sang-gyu, who served as the legal representative of the accusation, explained, “The statement that 41 people did not know that the reason for the disposition of non-prosecution was a preferential sale,” he said. “These selective investigations and selective non-prosecution are abusing the authority granted by the public to prosecutors.” At the same time, he also commented, “It can be seen as abandonment of the job in that there was no forced investigation in order not to collect objective evidence.”

The prosecution, who appealed against the two people convicted in the first trial, unfairly, explained that “the 41 people who were not prosecuted in the Busan Participation Solidarity accusation did not include high-ranking officials, former and current lawmakers, former ministers, and prosecutors.” have.

However, those who went on the accusation did not look out of disbelief. Attorney Jeong said, “We need to make sure that the reason why we did not properly investigate and closed the suspicion of the sale of preferential treatment was not because high-ranking officials or influential personnel were included. I will do it.”

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