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| ▲ Senior Public Officials Crime Investigation Chief Kim Jin-wook responds at a general meeting of the Legislative Judicial Committee held at the National Assembly on the 16th. | |
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Kim Jin-wook, the head of the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Department (the airlift department below), opened his mouth again over the’Interview with Lee Seong-yoon’.
Earlier, he said that he had met Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office Lee Seong-yoon at the airlift after receiving Kim Hak-e’s ex-Deputy Deputy Minister of Justice at the general meeting of the Legislative Judicial Committee held at the National Assembly on the 16th. On the morning of the 17th, he specifically mentioned to the reporters how he had an interview with the District Prosecutor’s Office, part of the contents of the interview, and, in addition,’how he did not write a record’ immediately after the interview.
“Current Airborne Special Situation”
First, Director Kim further opened his mouth on why he met Chief Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon at the time. He said, “(Prosecutor Lee) did not respond to the prosecution’s summons three times. It was reported that the prosecution’s investigation was not significant,” he said. “It was necessary to check the dust, so I decided that the need for an interview was significant.”
Regarding that the request for an interview was first received by the District Prosecutor’s Office, he said, “It is true that we did a basic interview with the investigation in mind.” He argued, “In light of the purpose of the establishment of the Air Convict Act, the fact that the prosecutor in high-ranking public officials is suspicious of misconduct is that the prosecutor is in principle investigated by the Air Convict Service, so we also considered investigating it to the end.” Currently, the case above is due to a manpower problem within the airborne agency, and only the investigation area has been re-transferred to the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office as of the 12th.
In addition, pointing out that the interview between the key suspect and the head of the chief was inappropriate, “The air defense agency stands for a human rights-friendly investigative body. In principle, it is a principle to accept an interview application as much as possible.” , Only the deputy general manager (omitted) If the lineup is complete, the prosecutor in charge is right to have an interview. That will be the case,” he replied.
“Interview with Seongyoon Lee, there was no special content”
On this day, Chief Kim refuted the report yesterday. The start of the controversy is the position of Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office immediately after Kim’s remark that’I met Lee Seong-yoon’ on the 16th. Suwon District Prosecutor, who is currently in charge of investigating the case of the former Deputy Minister of Justice Kim Hak-ei, issued a statement on the day and refuted that “I did not receive documents and records containing the interview details”. However, on the same day, as if he was conscious of the controversy, he publicly stated again at the judiciary committee’s general meeting that he had written an investigation report, not a record.
On this day, Director Kim ordered the same. He said, “Seeing that it was reported yesterday, I said that I changed the word that I first said it as a record and then reported the investigation, but when I checked the records of the National Assembly, it was not.” I did a basic investigation. So I also wrote an investigation report. This is a part that needs to be corrected,” he refuted.
Only the investigation report was prepared, and the reason for not writing the record was explained due to the shortage of manpower in the airlift. “The only prosecutors in the investigation department are the chief and deputy chiefs,” said Kim. “It is not appropriate for the chief and deputy chiefs to directly investigate and leave a record. It is legal for the prosecutors of the investigating department, the chief prosecutor, and the prosecutor to investigate and leave a record.”
On the contrary, he also opened his mouth for not documenting the’reason for not writing the record’. Earlier, the Ministry of Public Affairs said, “I prepared an investigation report on this district prosecutor in accordance with the investigation rules of the Ministry of Justice.” According to Article 26 of the Rules of Investigation, it is correct to record’the reason for not writing the record.’
Director Kim’s response was that “there was no special content in the interview.” He said, “When I heard (the prosecutor’s claim), there was no new content to write because it was generally the contents that were submitted.” It’s the same,” he explained.
Kim Jin-wook “Retirement who has reserved the right to prosecute, it is possible”
There was also a mention of Lee Jung-seop, the 3rd chief of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, who is in charge of the investigation of Kim Hak’s former vice minister. Earlier, on the 15th, the prosecutor at the prosecutor’s office posted an article on the internal prosecution bulletin board “Eprus,” relocating the former Vice Minister Kim’s case and accusing him of a “weird logic” toward the airlifter, who nailed the “right of prosecution” to not hand over.
Regarding this, Director Kim said, “It seems to be a backlash against the part that the airlift will exercise the right to prosecute later,” he said. “(However, the transferee who reserved the right to prosecute) was transferred pursuant to Article 24, Paragraph 3 of the Airlift Law. If it is determined, it is a discretionary provision that you can transfer to the relevant agency.”
In addition, he added, “According to Article 25, Paragraph 2 of the Airlifting Act, judges, prosecutors, and police officers are required to have the right to file a prosecution, especially for toxic prosecutors,” he said. “If the related provisions are comprehensively interpreted, the right to abstain from prosecution. “I think it’s possible enough even for a spouse who has reserved the event,” he said.