Like Kim Hak’s’Illegal Withdrawal’, Lee Seong-yoon Line is still crushing investigations

It was found that the prosecution had already investigated once in the same year regarding the alleged prohibition of illegal departure from former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui in March 2019. The Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office, Anyang District, received evidence of a request for investigation of the power of the people again earlier last month, but has not initiated a full-scale investigation. Inside the prosecution, there is a story saying, “Isn’t it for the investigation Mouma that the prosecutor’s personnel of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Lee Seong-yoon, who is related to this suspicion, was appointed as the Mayor of Anyang District?

According to the JoongAng Ilbo coverage on the 12th, the Anyang branch was commissioned by the Ministry of Justice from April 2019 and investigated two public interest judges who inquired whether Kim was banned from leaving the country through the Ministry of Justice’s internal system. Disposed of. The judges stated in the prosecution’s investigation that “I searched it simply because of curiosity.”

At the time, it was revealed that the investigation team had already identified the suspicion of illegal departure by summoning and investigating not only the two judges, but also the immigration department working group of the Ministry of Justice.

According to the 106-page public interest report, in a statement in May 2019, an immigration officer, Mr. A, in a statement in May 2019, asked,’What kind of problem did you think there was when you checked the request for urgent departure, etc.?’ “The case number is written with the central district prosecutor’s office. The agency is set up as the’Past Photographic Investigation Group of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office,’ and the prosecutor requested was a member of the Dongbu District Prosecutor’s Office, so it was totally strange and different from what I normally saw. “At the time, the chief of staff, the manager, and the head of the Immigration and Foreigners Policy Division, Cha Gyu-geun, discussed whether there was any violation of the procedure,” he said. “But it was finally decided to approve it according to the opinion of the head of the headquarters.”

The public interest report contains vividly the contents of the conversation that the immigration officers inquired about the immigration information of former Vice Minister Kim at the Kakao Talk group katok room and imposed a ban on departure. Mr. A said, “The head of the department is not approved for urgent (withdrawal), and the head of the head of the department talks about the person who is making it under the authority of the Minister of Justice. It seems to be going.”

The aunt prosecutor, who requested the emergency withdrawal of Kim Hak’s former vice minister, did not have the authority to request the withdrawal as a member of the Past Photographic Investigation Group, which did not have the right to investigate. So, in order to make former Vice Minister Kim a victim, such as assigning a case number of “2019 Seoul East District Prosecutors’ Office No. Was. Since the Seoul East District District Prosecutor’s Office rejected this request as “unlawful,” it eventually banned former Vice Minister Kim, who is a civilian, on the basis of a ghost incident that did not exist.

Even with such statements and evidence secured, the investigation team at the time was said to have not conducted a summons investigation for the supervisory rank or higher. An official who knew the circumstances at the time said, “According to the instructions and judgment of the superiors, it is not possible to say that the practitioners who inquired the computer records of Kim Hak’s entry and exit and withdrawal and reported the information did an illegal inspection. “It wasn’t,” he said, “but the wrong official document came, but I should have considered whether it is illegal for the upper line that ordered the emergency ban on departure.”

He added, “There was also a problem with the prosecution’s actions, which did not even ban general departure from former Vice Minister Kim, who had raised many suspicions in the first place.” In this regard, in 2019, the head of the Anyang branch did not respond to the JoongAng Ilbo’s request for clarification.

On December 3 of last year, “The Ministry of Justice inspected former Vice Minister Kim illegally, and the past photographic investigation team illegally prohibited him from leaving the country.” He asked the prosecution to investigate the case and received a report including a public interest report on the 7th of the same month. I handed over all the supporting materials. The prosecution then allocated the case to the Anyang branch, which has jurisdiction over the Gwacheon government office of the Ministry of Justice, but there is still no progress in the investigation.

Inside the prosecution, there are doubts whether the Anyang branch office itself is crushing the investigation. Anyang District Commissioner Lee Geun-soo (50, 28th Judicial Research and Training Institute) assisted District Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon as the Second Deputy Chief of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office before taking office at Anyang District in August last year. Park Jin-won (50th and 30th term), Deputy Chief of the Anyang District Office, also worked with Lee District Prosecutor as the First Central District Prosecutor’s Office from August 2019 to February last year.

On the morning of the morning of banning former Vice Minister Kim from leaving the country, the prosecutor Lee called a senior official at the Dongbu District Prosecutor’s Office and said, “Please (create an internal company number) as approved by the Dongbu District Prosecutor’s Office.” An official of the prosecution said, “There must have been a reason for the promotion targets of Director Lee and Deputy Director Park to be appointed to the Anyang branch,” he said. “If the Anyang branch continues to crush the investigation, there is a possibility to go to the procedure of appointing a special prosecutor.”

An official of the Anyang branch replied, “There is no content that can be confirmed” to a question about whether the related investigation was sluggish.

Reporters Kang Kwang-woo and Jung Yu-jin [email protected]