Like when an autumn son… “It is difficult to protect Kim Hak’s withdrawal informant in advance”

It was found that the reporter who reported the suspicion of the illegal departure ban against Kim Hak-e’s former Vice Minister of Justice would not receive immediate legal protection from the government. This means that it is difficult to be the subject of the’pre-protection and post-qualification review for public interest reporters’ announced in this year’s work plan by the National Rights Commission (Chairman Hyun-hee Jeon).

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 International 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 캡처]

According to the KRC on the 26th, the reporter who reported on the withdrawal process of former Vice Minister Kim filed an application for protection of the reporter to the KRC earlier this month. If recognized as a public interest reporter in accordance with relevant laws, protection measures such as confidentiality, identity security, personal protection, and responsibility reduction may be obtained.

However, in order to be recognized as a public interest reporter, an investigation by the Korea Rights Commission is required. The problem is that the informant is not legally protected during the investigation period, which requires up to six months.

This case already occurred last year during the suspicion of the son of Justice Minister Chu Miae.

On November 20 last year, Kwon Ik-wi announced that he is “recognized as a public interest reporter” against Mr. A on duty, who raised the suspicion of “returning to military leave” of Mr. Seo-mo, 28, the son of Minister Chu. It was more than two months after Mr. A made a request for protection to the rights and interests committee. While the Kwon Ik Committee’s decision was delayed, A’s real name was revealed through Facebook, etc. of Rep. Hwang Hee of the Democratic Party. This led to the’finding’ for Mr. A by the supporters of parental passport.

On the afternoon of October 12 last year, Mr. A, a soldier on duty, who first raised the suspicion of returning to military leave, the son of Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae, is entering to file a complaint with the Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office in Songpa-gu, Seoul. News 1

For this reason, the Kwon Ik Committee announced in a New Year’s report on the 22nd that “we will strengthen the protection of the reporter proactively and preemptively through pre- and post-review of the reporter. Contents such as requesting to stop posting articles and disclosing information of real name disclosurers were included in cases where the identity was disclosed or reported without the consent of the reporter. It is in the same context as President Moon Jae-in pledged to “prepare a more systematic procedure for the protection of public interest reporters” during the 2012 and 2017 presidential elections.

However, the person who reported the illegal withdrawal process related to former Vice Minister Kim is also not included in the’preemptive protection’ promised by the KRC, like Mr. A. In a call with the JoongAng Ilbo on the day, an official from the KFTC said, “Recognizing the shortcomings of the system and clarifying the pre-protection policy in the work plan, we have initiated the work of revising the relevant laws, but the amendment has not yet been proposed to the National Assembly.” “Protection of this informant He said, “The application is a situation where pre-protection cannot be applied depending on the system before the work report.”

Accordingly, in a press release distributed on the same day, the Kwon Ik Commission said, “As soon as the investigation procedure for the informant who applied for protection is completed, we will review the measures to protect the reporter and whether to request an investigation by the airlift in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.” Han Sam-seok, director of the Review and Protection Bureau, also said, “We will follow up fairly according to the results of the investigation.”

Some of the passports are also observed that the case related to the withdrawal of Kim, the former vice minister, will be the “airborne 1st case”.

In fact, candidate Park Bum-gye said at the National Assembly’s personnel hearing on the 25th that it is “right to relocate to the airborne” related to the case. In the passport, it is also raising the level of offensive against the informant, saying, “Public interest report is a leak of investigation information.” Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigner Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, also said in a radio interview, “It is a crime of confidentiality for public affairs for an investigator to hand over all sensitive investigation records to a specific political party. The accusation is being reviewed.”

Former prosecution investigator Kim Tae-woo, who was accused of revealing the suspicion of a civilian inspection by the Blue House Special Inspectorate (public service secret leak), came out after being sentenced to two years of probation for one year in prison at a sentence of prosecution held at the Suwon District Court in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do on the morning of the 8th. Answering the reporter’s question. yunhap news

The former Ministry of Strategy and Finance Secretary Shin Jae-min and Kim Tae-woo, former prosecutor investigator Kim Tae-woo, who exposed the suspicion of civilian inspections by the Moon Jae-in administration, went through the procedure of prosecuting prosecution after their identities were disclosed.

Reporter Kang Tae-hwa [email protected]