The building of the High-ranking Officials Crime Investigation Office. yunhap news
The Supreme Court said, “A matter to be judged by the court in charge of interpreting and applying the law,” as to whether the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation office (KAI) can give priority to investigation and prosecution over the prosecution in prosecutors’ crimes.
According to the legal community on the 4th, the Supreme Court Administration Office answered the question in the Office of Congressman Han-hong Yun, the power of the people in this way.
Rep. Han-Hong Yoon’s office to the Supreme Court ▶Is the prosecutor’s right to investigate and prosecute criminal cases of high-ranking public officials prior to the prosecution? We asked whether the authority, such as the right to prosecute or prosecute, could be the subject of espionage.
In addition, ▶whether it is possible to transfer the case to another investigative agency while the head of the public prosecution reserves withholding the exercise of the right to indictment He also asked if there were any problems.
Supreme Court of Seocho-gu, Seoul. yunhap news
Regarding this, the Supreme Court said, “The inquiries are related to the interpretation and application of the law.” He added, “It is not appropriate to present an opinion in the Supreme Court.”
Previously, the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office (Team Leader Lee Jeong-seop, 3rd Detective Division Chief), who investigated the allegations of illegal emergency ban and investigation Muma by former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui, transferred the prosecution case to the prosecution of the past photographic investigation team at the time of the incumbent prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon and the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. . However, the Ministry of Public Affairs relocated the case to the prosecution last month and demanded’songchi after the investigation is over’.
In response, the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office rebelled against him, and on the 1st, he and Gyu-geun Cha, the head of the Immigration and Foreigners Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, who had been involved in the suspicion with the prosecutor, were arrested on charges of writing false public documents. In the case of the District Prosecutor’s Office, he denies attendance at the prosecution, claiming that the airlift should take over the case.
In the light of the Supreme Court’s response, it is expected that the issue of the right to abstain from investigation and prosecution between the prosecution and the airlift is expected according to the judgment of the court in charge of the case such as this prosecutor.
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