On the morning of the 1st, Vice Minister Lee Yong-gu of the Ministry of Justice attended the inauguration ceremony of Minister Park Beom-gye held at the Ministry of Justice of the Gwacheon Government Complex in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province and listens to his greetings. Reporter Kim Kyung-rok
The police officer who was in charge of the investigation of the assault case of the taxi driver by the Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu was subjected to a police investigation as a suspect. The reason is that he abandoned his job even after seeing a person who has committed a crime.
On the 16th, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s joint hearing and investigation fact-finding team, which is conducting a self-final investigation into the suspicion of Lee’s insolvency assault of a taxi driver, charged Sergeant A of the Seoul Seocho Police Station, who was in charge of the case, on charges of abandonment of special duty under the Specific Crime Weighted Penalty Act. He said it was under investigation.
The charge of abandonment of special duties is applied when a public official engaged in a criminal investigation job abandons his/her job even though he recognizes a person who has committed a crime specified in the Special Act. If the sentence is found guilty because the sentence is heavier than the abandonment of duty under the criminal law, he or she will be sentenced to one year or more in prison.
Vice Minister Lee arrived in a taxi in front of an apartment in Seocho-gu, Seoul at 11:40 pm on November 6 last year, but assaulted a taxi driver trying to awaken himself from being drunk. At the time, the police closed the internal affairs without appointing Lee, and suspicion of preferential treatment was raised.
The taxi driver showed a black box video containing the assault situation to Sergeant A, who was in charge of the case, but Sergeant A said, “We will not see the video.”
The police, who have been investigating the truth, have investigated 42 people, including police officers belonging to the Seoul Police Agency and Seoul Seocho Police Station. On the 15th, Seoul Police Commissioner Jang Ha-yeon said at a press conference. “He said.
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