On the 27th, the prosecution, investigating various suspicions surrounding the assault case of a taxi driver by Vice Minister of Justice Yong-gu Lee, issued a seizure and search warrant against the Seocho Police Station in Seoul. On this day, the reporters are filming Seocho-seo, a search for seizure. News 1
The prosecution, who is investigating various suspicions surrounding the assault case of a taxi driver by Vice Minister of Justice Yong-gu Yong-gu, confiscated and searched the Seoul Seocho Police Station, which closed the case of the former vice minister. The prosecution is investigating the suspicion of an insolvent investigation that the police ended the case without filing Lee, while the prosecution revealed whether Lee was assaulting the taxi driver.
Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office 5th Criminal Division (Director Dong-Eon Lee) issued a seizure and search warrant against detectives and offices in Seocho-seo on the 27th. The search for seizure, which started at 10 am, ended around 5:15 pm, 7 hours later. The prosecution secured internal documents and evidence created at the time when the Seocho-seo criminal division investigated the assault case in November last year through seizure and search.
On the night of November 6, when he was a lawyer, it is known that he was intoxicated in front of his home in Seocho-gu, swearing at a taxi driver and catching fat. However, in this case, the police applied only the charges of assault under the criminal law, not the charges of assaulting the driver while driving under the Specific Crimes Weighted Penalty Act. And, “the taxi driver said he did not want punishment,” he said and closed the case. Under the criminal law, a simple crime of assault is an anti-government crime that cannot be prosecuted if the victim does not want punishment.
Controversy arose as the case was belatedly publicized after Lee took office last month, and a civic group accused Lee of violating the Special Price Act to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office sent the case to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, and the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office decided to conduct an investigation directly, not leaving it to the police, considering the suspicion of an insolvency investigation by the police.
With the recent emergence of new circumstances to support the police’s suspicion of insolvency, allegations related to the assault of the Vice Minister have not subsided. The victim taxi driver filmed the recovered black box video with a mobile phone and showed it directly to the police officer in charge, but the police officer is under suspicion about the evidence of the assault, saying, “I will not see it,” even after seeing the video. Earlier, the police explained the reason for the end of the internal affairs, saying, “The black box video was deleted on the day of the incident, so we could not confirm it.”
The prosecution is conducting investigations with many possibilities open, such as whether the police officer in charge made a mistake, or omitted the report, or intervened in the police command line in the process of ignoring video evidence. The prosecution, which has already secured the video of the black box assault in question and has conducted an investigation against the officials of the black box recovery company, is planning to call police officials sooner or later to check the exact facts, such as how they ignored the video at the time.
Joonki Jeong reporter [email protected]
