Prosecutor Eun-jung Lim on October 4, 2019. yunhap news
Im Eun-jeong (30th Judicial Research and Training Institute), a prosecutor of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, who was investigating the suspicion of a perjury teacher by the investigation team at the time of the’Illegal Political Fund Receiving Case’, received an adjunct appointment as a Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. It was pointed out in the legal profession that the sword was given to researcher Im, a pro-government-oriented researcher, for the purpose of prosecuting prosecutors ahead of the statute of limitations on March 22 to restore the honor of former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook and reform the prosecution.
On the 22nd, the Ministry of Justice made small greetings, such as filling vacant seats at the deputy prosecutor’s office at the prosecutor’s office and the second deputy prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. In addition, he explained, “We have strengthened the efficiency and function of the inspection work by granting the investigative authority as a prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office to the researcher.”
Researcher Lim is a person who has actively advocated the government’s prosecution reform through social network service (SNS). In September of last year, former Minister Choo Mi-ae made a’one point issuance’, which creates a position in which the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office Policy Researcher did not exist, and invited him to participate in the inspection of the case of Han Myung-sook. Then, this time, Justice Minister Park Bum-gye was appointed as a prosecutor at the central district prosecutor’s office, and even gained the authority to investigate.
This is the reason why the prosecution pointed out that immediately after the announcement of personnel, “whoever looked at it, the passport aimed to re-investigate the Han Myung-suk case.”
Han Myung-sook’s investigation team prosecuted prosecutors ahead of the 4-7 by-election
According to a number of officials who were familiar with the case of former Prime Minister Han, Researcher Lim was known to have expressed a strong meaning, “I will prosecute prosecutor A of the investigation team who was in charge of the case of Han Myung-sook as a perjury teacher and maintain the prosecution.”
Former Prime Minister Han was sentenced to a two-year imprisonment in 2015 for collecting illegal political funds of 900 million won from Han Man-ho, a construction contractor, and ended up serving 883 million won. However, the suspicion of a perjury teacher against the trial witnesses of the investigation team was released in May of last year when the full memorandum was released, stating that “he stated that he gave money to former Prime Minister Han” in a lie being pushed by the prosecution’s coercive investigation.
At the time of the prosecution of former Prime Minister Han in July 2010, Han Man-ho stated that he had “handed money to former Prime Minister Han” at the prosecution and overturned the statement that he had “did not give money” in the first trial court in December 2010. In February-March of the following year, a fellow inmate B·C, who went to the prosecution’s trial witnesses that the statement that Han Man-ho overturned was a lie. This is the content of the suspicion of the perjury teacher by the inspected A tester.
Since the 10 years of statute of limitations from March 23, 2011, which the witnesses last stated in court, expires on March 22, it is interpreted that researcher Lim was hastily granted the right to investigate.
Park Bum-gye accepted the request for investigative rights that Yoon Suk-yeol had rejected.
Researcher Lim asked Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol to issue such an adjunct appointment several times before this greeting, but he said that Yun objected each time. Fundamentally, it was because the former Prime Minister judged that there was no need to inspect witnesses in the trial.
Earlier, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office of Human Rights Supervision investigated the suspicion for about a month since last June, and it was concluded that the suspicion of manipulation of witnesses by Prosecutor A at that time was not reliable. In the end, the Minister of Justice Park Bum-gye accepted the request of Researcher Lim.
The chief prosecutor of a financial district prosecutor said, “Im researcher gave me wings to dance swords”. “Unfortunately, the passport is only interpreted with the intention of making it an issue when the re-election (April 7) is ahead. He pointed out.
Another prosecutor’s official said, “I know this is the first time that a great prosecutor has been appointed as a central prosecutor.”
On the 22nd, Minister of Justice Park Beom-gye. yunhap news
“Han Myung-suk has started to kill Yoon Seok-yeol again”
Some prosecutors have observed that “The killing of Seok-yeol Yun has begun again with the personnel of researcher Lim as a foothold.” On November 24 last year, the then Minister of Justice Chu Mi-ae made a request for disciplinary action against President Yun and ordered him to suspend his duties, and said, “It interfered with the investigation and investigation into the case of Han Myung-suk.” If President Yoon opposes Researcher Lim’s allegation of prosecution, the possibility of abuse is raised as a pretext for a second disciplinary action.
If Researcher Lim is convicted of prosecuting Prosecutor A, etc. at the will, former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook may also request a retrial and open the way for honor recovery.
Former Prime Minister Han said, “It is burdensome” to the request for retrial, and said the opposition. In the legal profession, the opinion that “retrial is impossible in the absence of new evidence to reverse the guilt” prevails.
Reporters Minjoong Kim, Yoojin Jung, Sumin Kim [email protected]