Kim Hak-eui, former Vice Minister of Justice. yunhap news
On the 21st, a prosecutor who is investigating the ban on the departure of Kim Hak-ei, former Vice Minister of Justice, is confiscating the Ministry of Justice on the 21st.
The Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had executed a warrant for seizure and search for the Ministry of Justice starting this morning. It is reported that the targets of the seizure and search include the offices of the Immigration and Foreigner Policy Headquarters that triggered this suspicion.
Former Vice Minister Kim attempted to leave the country in Bangkok, Thailand in March 2019, when public opinion rose for re-investigation, but was prevented from leaving the country just before boarding the plane due to an emergency ban on departure by the Supreme Prosecutors’ Prosecutor’s Office. However, in the process, the controversy over the illegality continues due to suspicion that he was banned from leaving the country based on the number of the case that was ended without charges or the number of internal affairs that did not exist at the time.
The People’s Power is a major review of the suspicion last month that the immigration headquarters of the Ministry of Justice inspected the real-time immigration records of former Vice Minister Kim 177 times without permission from March 20, 2019 until 0:2 on the 23rd, just before the immigration ban was imposed. Investigation is requested to and insisting on the introduction of special inspections. It is also known that related public interest reports have also been received by the National Rights Commission.
According to the Civil Rights Commission’s public interest report, officials at the Immigration Headquarters collected personal information such as Deputy Minister Kim’s immigration records according to the instructions of the top public officials at the time, and provided it to a superior or other institution (the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office), allegedly violating the Personal Information Protection Act. Receive.
In addition, former Minister of Justice Park Sang-sang, former Vice Minister Kim O-su, and Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigner Policy Headquarters, etc., ordered inspections of former Vice Minister Kim and assisted and approved illegal withdrawals in the process of approval of the ban on departure, thereby violating ex officio abuse and duties. He was on the charge of being a mandate.
The prosecution is also investigating the illegal controversy that arose while the Supreme Prosecutors’ Investigation Team received information from former Vice Minister Kim from the Ministry of Justice, requested an emergency ban on departure, and obtained post approval.
In addition, Lee Seong-yoon, chief prosecutor of anti-corruption and strong prosecutors (currently, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office), and Justice Minister Lee Jong-geun (currently chief of the prosecutor’s office) were suspicious of concealing after the death, and Lee Jung-hyun, the prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice (currently, the head of the public investigation department), recognized the illegality. Even so, suspicions of concealing or reducing the case have been raised.
Vice Minister of Justice Yong-gu Yong-gu, who served as secretary of the Prosecutors’ Past Committee of the Ministry of Justice as head of the Ministry of Justice’s Justice Department, and Tae-hoon Kim, the head of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Ministry of Justice, who was then head of the Policy Planning Department at the time, were also on the investigation line.
On the other hand, Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office was reassigned to the former vice minister Kim’s case on the 13th, and on the 14th, a day later, on the 14th, the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office formed an investigation team headed by 3rd Detective Chief Lee Jeong-seop (49, 32nd Judicial Research and Training Institute) to analyze related data such as public interest reports.
Reporter Lee Ji-young [email protected]