Park Kwan-cheon Former Blue House Public Service Secretary Office AdministratorThe prosecution summoned Park Gwan-cheon, an administrator in the office of the former Blue House Public Service Secretary, to check the process of preparing the so-called “Park Gwan-cheon Report,” and whether the statements were distorted, made by the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office fact-finding team, the working body of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Ministry of Justice.
According to law enforcement officials on the 23rd, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office (Prosecutor Byun Pil-gun) called the former administrator Park as a reference the day before to investigate the overall process of interviews with officials from the fact-finding team in the first half of 2019.
Previously, the prosecution called Yoon Gap-geun and investigated the case of accusing former Daegu High Prosecutors’ Officer Yoon Gap-geun of a suspicion of collusion with the construction contractor Yoon Joong-cheon for defamation.
In March 2019, the Prosecutor’s Office announced the results of the deliberation on the suspicion of Sung Sang-nap by Kim Hak-ei, former Vice Minister of Justice, and recommended an investigation to the prosecution, saying that when Kwak Sang-do was serving as chief civil servant at the Blue House, he exerted external pressure to the police.
When the police investigated the case of former Vice Minister Kim in 2013, it was intended that Kwak, who was chief civilian, was suspected of intervening in the police investigation process.
In fact, the fact-finding team interviewed with former administrator Park, and wrote in the report, “The former administrator said, “I heard that the police had reprimands and external pressure for investigation.”
However, in the prosecution’s investigation conducted in accordance with the prosecution’s recommendations for the investigation, it was concluded that Kwak’s suspicion of intervening in the investigation was not suspicious. Rather, the former administrator Park said in an investigation by the prosecution that “I have never made such a statement in an interview,” resulting in a false investigation by the fact-finding team.
When the prosecution dismissed the charges, Rep. Kwak sued President Moon Jae-in, former police chief Min Gap-ryong, Lee Gwang-cheol, senior administrative officer at the Civil Affairs Office, and prosecutor Lee Gyu-won of the fact-finding team, alleging defamation.
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